Doors and Windows
Forget Labels, Remember Influence
Attend to Your Relationships
Stay True to Your Cement Shoes
Stay Out of Oz
It's Not About You
When you find yourself facing a situation in which options are limited, widen your peripheral vision.
Keeps you grounded to your core beliefs, your integrity, and your life's mission
Student's actions and behaviors are primarily driven by an unmet need...not by the desire to push your buttons.
Creating positive relationships with students is essential in order to create a trauma sensitive classroom.
A child creates a tornado-some sort of disruption to the learning environment-and you get sucked in too.
Recognize what you cannot control and remind yourself of what you can influence to make your student's lives that much better.
