Three+Focus+Questions

Our Three Focus Questions for 07/08
=What can I do to get the students to return tomorrow?= =What can I do to promote curiosity?= =What can I do to help students have a better vision of themselves tomorrow than they have today?=

Priority Jigsaw Activity

 * Group 1 - Brainstorm from own experience
 * Group 2 - Ideas from an article on connecting with students
 * Group 3 - Exploring Community Building Activities from the beginning of year unit
 * Group 4 - Useful content from a book on helping students do the right thing

Our Favorites:
 * clear expectations
 * building lessons more responsively for student needs
 * Clearly and consistently define roles, rules & procedures (for all people in the school)
 * Connecting academic curriculum to REAL problems in the students' community
 * Listen to the students and try to relate to the things that real matter to them
 * Compassion - find things in common with other people, even when they seem really different, to develop empathy
 * Doing geneology with the students (ancestry.com)
 * Designing the school court system - involve students in the decisionmaking.