Wow, it has been quite some time since my last post! Where has the time gone?! It is already February 23, and next week we have student-let conferences here at WMMS. Before we know it, we will be into our final quarter of the school year. This winter has been unique with no snow days yet, and we have only had one late start. I hope I did not just jinx us.
Today we have a 1:00 in-service. All three building administrators have set their own meetings. Here in the middle school, we are having a staff meeting first, then we are having PLC meetings, and then teachers will have time to collaborate and/or work in their classrooms. I hope the afternoon goes well.
This week here at WMMS, we have had a Bullying Awareness Week. On Monday, students were shown short videos of the song by Taylor Swift "Mean" and her comments about being bullied in high school. Then discussions were held about the definition of bullying and examples. After that, all of the students completed a survey. Then on Tuesday, 6th - 8th small groups met to do some pair sharing about topics related to bullying. Yesterday was an assembly where I discussed my law conference meeting from the day before and how schools all across our state and country are dealing with this same topic - Bullying. I told our student body and staff about my job and how I should be an instructional leader spending time on curriculum and teaching practices and classroom sources. Instead, much of my time is spent dealing with bullying issues and student issues and just plain kids not treating other kids respectfully. It is sad, and we all need to do what we can to end bullying.
Congratulations to our high school wrestling coaches and student athletes who made it to state. Also, congrats to our high school girls basketball team and coaches for a great season and their chance to play at state. Let's hope our boys basketball team is able to beat PCM Saturday night so they, too, can play in the state basketball tournament.
