Weekly Updates for Realms MS & HS Staff
Hey Team, Seems like a topic this week for many of you revolved around how our students (the passengers on this plane!?!) are doing in class… their level of engagement, their “behavior”, their work completion, attendance etc. I want to encourage all of you to keep looking at the bright spots and recognizing that there are MANY Continue reading How Are The Passengers Doing?!
Hey Team! Clearly I am having a hard time resisting the plane metaphor so far in these blog titles… I think I am getting punchy from too much “drinking from the fire hose of good stuff” (and maybe lack of sleep too)!? Speaking of good stuff – I have been just SUPER IMPRESSED by the thoughtful and Continue reading Climbing to Cruising Altitude
Hey Team! It feels like the word of the week this week (and maybe next) is “systems”… not necessarily the most pedagogically inspiring word, but it important nonetheless so that hopefully YOU ALL can spend your time an energy working on the more pedagogically inspiring stuff!! On Thursday we tuned up the Realms MS system of classroom Continue reading Systems Check!
Hey team, Here’s a new blog post now that the plane is in the air! PHOENIX RISING STUDENT INTRO VIDEO – 30 SECONDS FROM AIDEN: phoenix rising – CLICK HERE Celebrating Great Teaching It has been a privilege to begin to get into a few classrooms and a few Crews this week, and to see great teaching Continue reading In The Air!
Hey team, Here we go! Last week a few of us did some drop in planning together and made a trip to the site. The rooms are looking more and more ready and there is a lot of potential for cool student and teacher creativity in the space! We did stop by 10 Barrel afterwards for a Continue reading Two Weeks To Launch!
Hey team, Back in May we started our first Crew meeting with this quote: “To start a school is to proclaim what it means to be human” from the original EL Education school design application back in the 1980’s. Tom James, who said this quote, goes on to say: “If you’re going to try to reform schools, Continue reading Hello Leaders of Change!