Monday 3 December 2012

Our Glendale Stories...


To celebrate the initiation of our Empathy ReBoot Project, we've decided to get to know each other a little bit better. Today, three bulletin board displays went up highlighting the learning stories of staff members in the form of My Story posters. Our plan is to display the staff posters for one week allowing kids to see and read them, and to provide examples to work from as they build their own posters in the coming weeks and months. Next week the first batch of student posters will go up, and every week thereafter so each member of our school family has a personal poster displayed before the end of the year. Glendale staff members have done an excellent job filling the halls with their posters, and they're already generating lots of interest.

The idea behind the posters is really quite simple. We all have a story: the parts already written; the parts we're writing now and the parts we have yet to write... the ones with all the happy endings. Each individual child needs to feel a sense of ownership and purpose in his/her own learning. Creating these posters provides everyone an opportunity to reflect on their learning places... where they've come from; where they're at now and where they want to move toward in the future. Children enter school already five years into their learning stories meaning we have a lot of catching up to do!

Please take the time as you visit the school to look at the posters to begin learning our stories. This will be the first step toward creating an empathetic school; one where people care and know about each other.

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