Spending time with individuals and seeing them as a person, always has me thinking of next steps. Their daily interactions are of me saying something like, this part is great, next step is this. Since I’ve always been focused on the next step, I’m not sure I’ve properly celebrated yet where they are, but we started to this week. After we took the week wrapping up our unit, trying to provide evidence of all the things we knew, I was feeling a bit overwhelmed. But after looking at how far they’ve come since their pre-assessment, and looking at how well they’ve scored on the rubric, I’m actually very happy with what we’ve accomplished. We learned a lot! Today was a chance for us to kind of celebrate as a class and share our thinking on the past unit. Happily it’s report writing time, and I’m entering into this stage full of optimism for our kids.
This isn’t really the post I’ve been wanting to return with, but I just want to get back into the habit of writing.
Joe Teft 