5 Things I Know About Your Teachers
After meeting with teachers during the past two weeks in grade level teams and hearing about their successes in their professional learning communities, the new ways they are differentiating instruction to meet the individual needs of our students, and the countless stories about how they are partnering with parents...
Feedback is a gift…most of the time
Feedback truly can be a gift and can help individuals and groups improve and get better, but I would challenge the notion that all feedback is a gift. Our Lead From Here movement calls each of us to grow in our ability to be more collaborative, communicative, accountable, empathic,...
Community Conversations
Our next Lower School Community Conversation will take place on Tuesday, October 21, 6:30-7:30, in the Winston Library. All families are invited to join in this dialogue that will focus on international families and their transition to the Ravenscroft community after living in another country. The objectives for this community gathering will be...
Beautiful Questions
“A beautiful question is an ambitious yet actionable question that can begin to shift the way we perceive or think about something — and that might serve as a catalyst to bring about change.”- Warren Berger Asking questions seems too simple to be the solution for how we can...
Lower School Parent Night
Parent Night is one of my favorite events of the school year because it is one of the few opportunities we have to all be together, in one space, to engage in a conversation about our shared passion and commitment– our children’s educational journey. This year I find myself...
Collaboration in Children’s Books
This is a guest post by Ruth Thomas, Curriculum and Instruction Specialist in Lower School This week our first Tree Talk focused on collaboration, one of our Lead from Here competencies. In Lower School, we define collaboration as “working with others so we can do more, better”. We will...
Embrace the Possibilities in 14-15
As we look forward to the 2014-2015 school year, we will continue to embrace all the possibilities that exist for our youngest Ravens as they prepare for a future that we cannot yet see or imagine. Our Lead From Here movement will intentionally support their efforts to learn more...
A Summer Reading Plan- Guest Post by Ruth Thomas
There are never enough summer days to read all the good books that have been written. However, the power to choose what to read motivates everyone to read more. Gershwin’s aria, Summertime, in the well-known opera, Porgy and Bess, affirms that the “livin’ is easy” during this season. Not...
Part 2: Where have we been? Where are we now? Where are we going next?
In keeping with the car analogy used in PART 1 of our discussion about the Lower School’s journey, we recently had four outside experts come in and take a good hard look under the hood of our car to examine the impact of our past and present experiences, and...
PART 1: Where have we been? Where are we now? Where are we going next?
My personal leadership journey has been inspired by the image of a car traveling down the road. A leader, just like the driver of a car, has to know where she wants to go, where she is now, and where she has been. After three years as the...
