Creating and following a plan to success
Hello GBS Bobcats;
We've had quite a bit going on this past week, not the least of which was testing. Similar testing also continues in earnest this week and next. Testing is an invaluable asset to our teachers, and school as a whole benefits from the effort.
To explain why, I am reminded of a scene from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. In order to make any plan for improvement, whether as a student, or in our career, perhaps regarding family matters, etc., we must first know where we have been, where we are now, and then where we want to go. Otherwise, we risk ending up like poor lost Alice, who, questioning the Cheshire Cat, asked:
“‘Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to walk from here?’ ‘That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,’ said the Cat. ‘I don’t much care where—’ said Alice. ‘Then it doesn’t matter which way you walk,’ said the Cat” (Carroll, 1865, p. 89).
Obviously, we do (or at least should!) care where we end up, unlike the befuddled Alice. Yet first, we need to know where we currently stand, and how that compares to where we have been, as that will inform our plan of action to get wherever it is that we wish to go. This testing helps us do exactly that, so thank you all for your willingness to participate and engage in this valuable assessment. We appreciate all of our students and families their support and participation, as these tests give us valuable metrics and data points that we can use to gauge academically where students have been, where students are now, and (perhaps most importantly) helps us make plans for where we ought to be going, and efforts needed to get there.
Thank you all for everything you do. Our school could not and would not be the amazing place that it is without everyone and every role they play in it. You are appreciated!
Sincerely;
- Joe Wright
Assistant Principal.
Quote of the Day:
“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
—Abraham Lincoln
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