Daily Helping:
Week 11 (March 12 - March 18):
During this 7 day period, consider how the staff and administration where you work can serve and collaborate together in order to insure that at-risk students do not slip through the cracks. This will take a diligent effort on behalf of teachers, principals, superintendents, counselors, parents and many others. While we do not excuse the wrong choices of children as it relates to the development of their overall character and education; yet, we must admit that many students, particularly from lower socio-economic family backgrounds, are subjected to terrible circumstances which influence their thinking and subsequent actions to the degree that they become known as behavior problems within the culture of a school community. This is the crux of the matter: professional and compassionate educators, working together with parents and other community members, must not allow the politics and operations of school districts, along with the associated stress and demands which comes from the aforementioned, to interfere with doing everything possible to draw out from within each student that which is necessary in helping them to develop into productive members of society. This can happen through administrative leadership facilitating the experiences which produce benefits stemming from a well-rounded education where healthy relationships precede both rigor and relevance. Your challenge each day is to find ways to get beyond the business of your schedule and minister to the whole person represented by any given number of students who have become behavior problems. We can avoid allowing most of these kids from slipping through the cracks of society by loving and meeting their most basic needs. This will require sacrifice and intense collaboration for the benefit of each student, their family, the school community where they live and society as a whole. Take this challenge seriously and be quick to listen and selective in your words; allow your actions to show that you care and that you want to build the student(s) up through meeting the necessary needs that they have at any given time. Bridging the gap between where students are academically and where they need to be is best constructed through mutual respect, cultivating caring professional relationships and embracing opportunities that help them to know that they are special and have a purpose in our world.
During this 7 day period, consider how the staff and administration where you work can serve and collaborate together in order to insure that at-risk students do not slip through the cracks. This will take a diligent effort on behalf of teachers, principals, superintendents, counselors, parents and many others. While we do not excuse the wrong choices of children as it relates to the development of their overall character and education; yet, we must admit that many students, particularly from lower socio-economic family backgrounds, are subjected to terrible circumstances which influence their thinking and subsequent actions to the degree that they become known as behavior problems within the culture of a school community. This is the crux of the matter: professional and compassionate educators, working together with parents and other community members, must not allow the politics and operations of school districts, along with the associated stress and demands which comes from the aforementioned, to interfere with doing everything possible to draw out from within each student that which is necessary in helping them to develop into productive members of society. This can happen through administrative leadership facilitating the experiences which produce benefits stemming from a well-rounded education where healthy relationships precede both rigor and relevance. Your challenge each day is to find ways to get beyond the business of your schedule and minister to the whole person represented by any given number of students who have become behavior problems. We can avoid allowing most of these kids from slipping through the cracks of society by loving and meeting their most basic needs. This will require sacrifice and intense collaboration for the benefit of each student, their family, the school community where they live and society as a whole. Take this challenge seriously and be quick to listen and selective in your words; allow your actions to show that you care and that you want to build the student(s) up through meeting the necessary needs that they have at any given time. Bridging the gap between where students are academically and where they need to be is best constructed through mutual respect, cultivating caring professional relationships and embracing opportunities that help them to know that they are special and have a purpose in our world.
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