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Our colleagues and relationships across grade levels

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Staff are dedicated to the success of scholars.

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Staff are dedicated to the success of scholars.

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Everyone is very friendly and willing to help.

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The people I work with are open-minded, helpful, and kind. That has been so helpful for me.

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The community of scholars, families, and staff. Building is full of dedication and passion

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Both the Forest Staff Family and the scholars/ parent community make this school so unique and special.

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Staffing for special education

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Support and PD opportunities for new teachers

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Support and PD opportunities for new teachers

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Bringing back morning announcements and monthly town halls

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Georgian Forest has been ahead of MCPS in all things Race and Equity related. Let's keep going!

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Structured recess activities

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Every staff member truly CARES for the scholars as the whole child, not just as data points.

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Emphasis on professional development around race and equity for past 15 years.

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Emphasis on professional development around race and equity for past 15 years.

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Help each other maintain high standards for all scholars - mindset

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Help each other maintain high standards for all scholars - mindset

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I think having a centralized folder would be beneficial for teams. Each content or grade level team could put in plans and resources. This could be helpful for vertical articulation, and could help teams tweak their own practices.

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Our scholars and their families.
All the growth we have worked for in the area of equity.

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PD opportunity outside of staff meetings

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Use our gifts to lead/share PD for each other

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Use our gifts to lead/share PD for each other

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More cross grade level supports- buddy reading, scholar mentors, etc

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Increasing our repertoire of ways to differentiating instruction to meet the needs of all scholars.

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Increasing our repertoire of ways to differentiating instruction to meet the needs of all scholars.

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Collaborate more with each other, not just within grade levels.

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Collaborate more with each other, not just within grade levels.

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Staffing!
Manageable expectations for classroom teachers, right now the level of expectation is not sustainable.

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Protection of scholars through courageous conversations with staff.

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Protection of scholars through courageous conversations with staff.

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Created an atmosphere that’s enjoyable to come to work in and not as heavy

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Help each other by sharing our strengths and remaining positive!

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Help each other by sharing our strengths and remaining positive!

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I think we as a school could use more direction in how to meet scholar needs and not let them slip through the cracks. How can we maximize the people and the resources that we have?

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Ways to serve GFES staff, scholars, families

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Ways to serve GFES staff, scholars, families

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Respect and enhance the assets in one another, invest time in building relationships.

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Spread positivity and encouraging each other to give our colleagues the benefit of the doubt.

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Have a special group/after-before school club  as a way to inspire/motivate scholars in  being their best. (A special area which we can collaborate, model and interact with our scholars "outside" of the classroom)

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Have a special group/after-before school club  as a way to inspire/motivate scholars in  being their best. (A special area which we can collaborate, model and interact with our scholars "outside" of the classroom)

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Classroom teachers and specialist calling parents directly to communicate concerns, celebrations, or ask questions

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Remembering that we're all human. We all have things going on that others cannot see that may impact our performance. 

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Remembering that we're all human. We all have things going on that others cannot see that may impact our performance. 

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Celebrate our growth (no matter how small it may seem) as adults and supporting one another to continue that growth.

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Celebrate our growth (no matter how small it may seem) as adults and supporting one another to continue that growth.

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Eliminating barriers that affect our scholars' attendance.

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Eliminating barriers that affect our scholars' attendance.

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Kindness to our scholars and to other staff. Speaking and through actions

The way we want scholars to communicate to eachother needs to be modeled by staff.

“Put a sock in it” - a teacher speaking to a scholar in a mal tone

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Holding each other accountable for learning the LIM curriculum so we can teach our scholars habits and strategies on how to become a leader with an emphasis on SEL skills.

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Genuine dedication to restorative practices and ABAR.

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More transparency re COVID sicknesses among our school community.

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scholars know that the worst that will happen is that they will miss recess, it's never a call home from the principal or even a talk with the principal, there are no real consequences

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There is no actual grizzly pride, at least not that I've seen. There is no apparel available for students, we don't even do spirit week with fun activities. As a low income community we should provide more things for students to feel like they belong to something bigger.

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Improve lunch behavior to avoid conflicts among scholars. 

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Improve lunch behavior to avoid conflicts among scholars. 

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Continue to support and respect each other and remain positive!

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Establish a plan for students who do not behave in the classroom and disrupt the behavior of others.

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Though we do shine light on race... in past years we have been mostly focused on BLM, I wish we would put the same energy into celebrating all the other minorities vs the occasional mention of them.

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Unfortunately, we are not always able to look at our data because we get interrupted by admin about what we are doing wrong. I truly wish we would be guided through the expectation in a professional manner vs being spoken down to, causing our meetings to be hostile

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More focused technology support and professional development about how to use technology in helpful and engaging ways. Currently staff members who have other roles are trying to fill this role on top of other duties.

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When subbing for a classroom teacher, it would be nice if the day could be split in half so that one on-call non-classroom teacher doesn't have to cover the whole day.

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Love them or hate them, teachers need to wear their masks in classrooms and hallways. Not just for health reasons but to model the behavior for our scholars. It's hard to ask a scholar to wear their mask when a teacher is not.

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Additional reading support across the grade levels is critical.

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Collaboration!

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We are a culturally responsive school, focusing on restorative practices, building relationships, and not instilling fear -as scholars and staff have already experienced so much trauma.

Our other strength is our collaborative efforts and inclusiveness of all team members. We value others' perspectives, ideas and experience.