Hi All,
I hope that you all had a break that had just the right mix of everything you wanted and needed. I know I am looking forward to being back in a routine and am grateful for all of the messes that we've made and the extra family time.
Did you know that January is National "Thank You" Month? When we make authentic gratitude visible for each other and our students we model that is known to make the spaces we are in better.
Here's my challenge that I will share with you all and the broader BES community.
Week 1 and 2 : Acts of Service
Week 3 and 4: Notes of Gratitude (Thank You Stations)
Feel free to utilize these challenges in your classrooms and in common spaces.
How can you and your students demonstrate a thankful attitude towards others through actions? In the last two weeks of the month I will create some small "thank you stations" where students can write notes of gratitude.
News and Announcements
- Reaffirming Community After a Vacation
- 7 Tips for the Transition
- Morning Message Ideas
- Post break, especially our winter break, students can experience a wide range of emotions and not every students winter break felt like a vacation. Here are 12 prompts that you could use to have an inclusive welcome back from break.
- What's one thing that you're proud of from the last two weeks, big or small?
- What's something that helped you get through break?
- What's one thing that you are looking forward to this week back from break?
- What's one routine that helps your brain and body feel ready to learn?
- What's one kind thing that someone did for you recently?
- What's one kind thing you did for someone else recently?
- What's one think that made you smile or laugh during your break?
- What's one thing you want your teacher to know about how you are feeling today? ***Sentence starters are really helpful here.
- What's one goal you want to work on between now and Friday?
- If you're week had a "weather report" what would it be today and what might help it improve?
- Here is a signup for continued math PD with Curriculum Associates (iReady Math). If you click on the picture it should bring you to the link to sign up. If not, try this!
Marshall Memo 1118
This week's quotes and articles come from Charles Darwin, School Administrator, Dave Stuart Jr.'s website, The International Educator, Harvard Business Review, Mathematics Teacher, The Reading Teacher, Education Week, ASCA School Counselor, Leadership Freak, School Library Journal, and The New York Times. Here are the headlines:
- A constructive approach to regrets in the middle of the school year
- Tapping the (sometimes hidden) potential of neurodiverse leaders
- Advice for when an organization's founder rides into the sunset
- Words of wisdom for novice teachers of mathematics
- Inferencing - a vital skill for beginning readers
- Respecting boundaries in a boundary-critical profession
- Low-key mindfulness exercises
- How to ask for feedback
- The best children's books of 2025
- An infographic on humanity in motion
If you want an HTML version of this week's Memo, please click here. To listen to a podcast of the previous issue (#1117), click here. For a podcast of this week's Memo, just log in at www.marshallmemo.com later this week and click Podcasts.
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Sign up today Thank you for everything you do to inspire students each day.
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