at the first meeting there were 20 people in attendance. lots of good ideas. very little listening. i told the story of me getting my advisees to reflect on the hike and no one...said...a thing...in response. total silence. i was very frustrated.
the second meeting i went to had about 6 people in attendance. we talked a lot. we generated wonderful ideas for how to support our new teachers including something we're going to call brags'n'snags (my term) where teachers can share what's going well and what's troubling them. it might take the form of a blog or a cool looking worksheet (which i'll generate) they can keep in the back of a notebook for future brags'n'snags chat sessions.
but the best part of the meeting was when one of my colleagues (a middle school teacher) shared with us the story of the child of the day. once a week he selects a student to be the child of the day. each student in the class says something nice about the student and then they get to talk about whatever the student of the day wants to talk about for a certain amount of time. so nice...
keep meetings small. listen to each other. be nice.
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