Whenever I have the opportunity to participate in PD with Hilary Sloat, I take it! I am feeling SO energized after our staff meeting last week. I love it when we are able to work together at a staff and process new learning and it was so much fun to do that on Friday.
The PD prompted me to go back into Zaretta Hammond's book, Culturally Responsive Teaching & The Brain. I reread many of the parts that I had underlined and written notes about this summer. This quote seemed to resonate with us on Friday and it just so happens I felt the need to underline it as I read this summer too: "Teacher as Ally and Warm Demander In this role, the teacher offers both care and push as needed. The main focus here is cultivating the skills to push students into their zone of proximal development while helping them manage their emotional response..." As we continue to live our motto "Love is an Intervention" this is just the kind of reminder we need. Love doesn't mean that kids get away with things or that we make things easy. Love means that we are their ally and that we learn to be warm demanders who give them just the right amount of both care and push. As we await our books to come in...yes, I ordered 60 of them! Take a look at these pages from Zaretta's book. Take some time to reflect on the kind of teacher you are and the kind of teacher you want to be.
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