Processing with Your Child
We have started using a new behavioral intervention to continue to improve our community of learners at Beartooth. You've likely seen pictures of teachers using "Circle Up" time in the morning (some do it at the end of the day). We started it every day of the week and will likely be moving to 3 or 4 days a week in the next few weeks. This time to visit, connect, and build the classroom community is invaluable. As students grow and learn together, they learn that they are accountable with one another as well. When students wrong a classmate, multiple students have problems to solve, or the class needs to be reminded of a behavioral norm, small groups to the whole class can use a similar "circle up" time to repair relationships and own their role in events happening during class, recess, specialists, or lunch. The teacher will fill out the first box of the "Repair Reflection" form, make a copy to keep at school, and then send the original home to reflect on the events at school with parents and share their means to solve the problem and make the situation right for others involved. We hope you'll find this conversation short, beneficially reflective, and helpful to your chid (informative for you as the parent). Once you are done filling in the other 3 sections with a couple short sentences, please sign the form and send it back to school. That's it. Simple accountability for the student and information for the parent(s).
