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This year I stopped doing traditional morning work and started doing growth mindset activities. Each week is a different theme and the kids refer back to the various things they've learned to help themselves and others. Some common favorites are "I have grit." and "I can do hard things."

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Watching my students be leaders in a crowd of other students without me having to ask. They are just so kind to others and I love watching them take care of each other.

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My student had a rough November. He was struggling to communicate his feelings resulting in reactive behaviors. We worked together to figure out different strategies and the past 3 weeks he has been using his coping skills and communicating his needs!

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It's been an amazing year in my classroom. Lots of positive interactions/relationships. Consistency with Units of Study is showing promise. Teaching feels good again!

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My OG phonic group is experience success and showing progress on the skills taught.

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I have been able to create and reinforce a relationship with a couple of students that attend school irregularly. Consequently, they have many needs, but I am slowly gaining their trust and they are beginning to learn.

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Starting off my first year I was so intimidated with the idea of teaching phonics and having the kids actually learn something from me. I just did my mid-year testing and I have seen some positive progress and that is definitely rewarding!

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I have been fortunate to forge a family-like atmosphere with my 7th and 8th grade bands this first semester. It makes making music so much more meaningful.

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Co-taught World History is doing awesome! Looking like all of the the students in there will pass the class!

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I am learning to start each day with a clean slate and fresh start.

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Two students stayed after our winter concert just to talk and connect. . . until about 10:45pm! They got home safe.

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I feel I have been able to create good relationships with most of my students! Getting to know them and letting them get to know me more as the year has gone on. I try to start each class with "share good news" time and I feel students have been really receptive to it!

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Building relationships with some difficult students and got them passing grades in all their classes!!!

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I share a room with another resource room teacher and this year we created caseloads based on SEL and academic needs to help target IEP goals more directly. This has helped to give teachers a "go to" person for specific needs AND also allowed me to start a LINKS program to build peer to peer relationships. We have been doing some co-teaching groups to double dip with academic and SEL. It has gone extremely well and has been a blast learning and working together.

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This year we are starting something new to build on employability skills in JET.  In addition to earlier units, our students will have the opportunity to be certified in Food Safety with Safe Serve.  Charlotte got our program an amazing PAES lab to provide real-world experience as well as provide authentic assessment data.

And BEST OF ALL - after the 21st, I will have 11 IEPs of my caseload of 15 finished :)

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Our program was able to get a new (very fancy and exciting) vocational lab that is awesome. We just got trained on how to use it last week and I am looking forward to getting my students in the lab to work on their employability skills!!

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I found new whiteboards and lots of flexible seating for my thinking classroom.

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I have built a really strong relationship with a student who can be hard to get through to. He chose me to make a Christmas card for yesterday and he was so excited to give it to me :)

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The start of the year was rough with an oppositional EI student. Now he is working often and loves to be helpful. Friday he even asked for my help because he was having a hard time focusing on the task.

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Surviving the hard part of breaking through to hard seniors

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VR- Algebra - increased engagment and taking our thinking further!

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Every student (96) in my Humanities course presented "Who Am I?"

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RISE program!

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I have made connections with students and I think I have facilitated some at least, surface connections, between students that might not have interacted otherwise.

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My students are so kind and supportive! I got 2 "sweet notes" yesterday :)

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The relationships that I've been able to build with my students and co-workers

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