Friday December 12th, 2014

Our coach and consultant for today is Jennibelle. Anne and I were with her in Utah on Thursday, and she is very excited to spend the day at our school on Friday. Here is a brief background about her:

Leader in Me Coach and Consultant

Here is a handout from the Thursday principal coaching training. We will spend the two staff meetings in January learning about paradigm shifts and student leadership roles. This handout will give you a brief overview of what we will be learning. The nice piece is that most of the items mentioned are items that we are already doing at our school. This is a helpful reflection piece:

Shifts

We have a few students who have applied to be service leaders. Do you have a task that could be completed by a student? Something that involves assisting other students, assisting peers with leadership notebooks, or even something like stapling or cutting that would give you ten-fifteen minutes to use for something else? Let me know if you have ideas.

One job for students to apply for is kindergarten leader. This is a very popular job with several applicants. They take their job seriously! They love assisting students with learning letter names and letter sounds: