This Week at AES
12/5 - 12/9
Important Information
- The A Team will not be working with students on Dec. 9th. Instead the Team will be meeting with teachers to discuss student groups and progress
- We are in need of chapter books for the book swap, please help us by pushing this book drive with your students.
- Tis the Season for colder weather; if the feels like temperature is 38 degrees or lower, you should not go outside.
Yes that is correct. Jean days from here until 2017.
Book Swap
Our next Book Swap will take place on Friday from 10:30 -1:30. Here are a few reminders:
- Bring your students at a time that works best for you.
- Students who bring books to swap can place them in the crates right outside the Book Swap Room door. They will be labeled “Picture Books” and “Chapter Books.”
- Unless you’re coming right after lunch, you may want to have students bring a book to read while they wait in case there is already another class in the Book Swap Room.
- The area behind the book shelves in the Media Center will be cleared out for students who finish book shopping. That way your students will be more visible while you are monitoring the Book Swap Room.
- Kindergarten books will be brought down to the ELC again, just like last time.
#Best Instruction
#Best Environment
#Best Opportunities
Thank you Diane Krueger for always being flexible.
Love
So on to the book. Mr. Noble uses a very familiar verse to discuss leadership.
1st Corinthians 13:4-7
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Now many of you are probably looking at this verse and saying, "That's the verse they always read at weddings." And you are correct. Mr. Noble shares that this verse is more about leadership than marital bliss. He believes that to be a leader you must be patient, kind, focused on lifting other up, humble, an easily angered and doesn't keep a record of misdeeds. If you ask me those are also the characteristics of outstanding educators. Patient, kind, focused on helping the students, humble enough to realize that we can always be better, providing do-overs for students, and not being easily angered.
If the first few verses provide the characteristics of outstanding educators, then verse 7 becomes our mission. Protect, trust, have hope, and always persevere.
I share this information not because of the source of the advice, but because of the power in the message. The school year is filled with many ups, downs, side-ways turns, and do-overs. You all have 1,525,203 things coming at you at once. Sometimes we let those core characteristics and mission get past us in lieu of a much small rock.
Thank you for loving our kids and being so much to them.