It Takes a Team
Posted by Hope Spencer on 06 Nov 2009 | Posted in: Inspiration and Motivation, Meet the Mailbox®, Relationships and Team Building, Teachers and Teaching
One of the things The Mailbox editors love to talk about is schools. We talk about the schools we taught in, the schools our kids attend, and the schools we attended as children. Of course we’re school-obsessed: look at our choice of profession! Recently, as I was thinking about writing this blog, I asked the editors to talk about the school lunches they enjoyed the most. It won’t surprise you to hear that many of them mentioned pizza. That’s always a favorite, isn’t it? But they also talked about chicken nuggets and barbecue sandwiches, and one preschool editor even mentioned broccoli! She said that her students loved to eat the ”trees!”
Talking about the lunches we enjoyed made me think about the woman who supervised our cafeteria. She was part of the glue that held our school together, someone we depended on every day. We all looked forward to her smiling face. The kids felt comfortable with her; she was someone who cared about them. Her food gave us energy and her laughter lifted our spirits.
There were other important adults in our school. Although our secretary kept a stern exterior, her heart was always with the children and teachers. She was the first one I would turn to when I wasn’t sure of a process or when I needed something. She knew all the ins and outs of our school and was willing to share what she knew.
And the custodian! Oh my! Where would a school be without a good-natured, hard-working custodian? I was fortunate to work with a happy, helpful man who would do anything for us. He kept our school on track, but he also went out of his way to keep everyone comfortable and smiling. Once, a blizzard started during the school day. We had a hectic time getting all the kids safely to their cars or buses and, when we finally walked out to our cars, he had his team out there scraping the freezing drizzle off our windshields. I appreciated him so much.
The school community is made up of teachers and students. But, beyond that, there is a team of adults who work hard every day to make schools a better place for everyone. Let’s hear it for the team!
Enjoy your students today!
Hope
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How true it is that the building must be a team for our job as teachers to accomplish everything that must be done. There are so many people in my building that I depend on to help provide things to be done to help my students with learning. One special person in our building is our Community Connector. Actually, she has become the jack-of-all-trades in our building. She organizes a mentoring program, builds teacher morale, finds services that are important to our lower income families, gets kids coats, hats, gloves and on and on. Everyday we are so thankful she has been sent our way!
I love your curriculum! I just wish you had something with a Christian theme as well.
Don’t get me wrong, I use alot of your stuff now. It would save me lots of time if it were
all together as one.
Thanks
Good morning, I thought I would share a song I made and use at my Learning Centre as I notice there are not many songs about Remembrance Day…
Tune: London Bridge
Poppies are for remembering, remembering, remembering
Poppies are for remembering
Lest we forget
Rembering the soldiers, the soldiers, the soldiers
Remembering the soldiers
Who stand on guard for thee
Thank you to our heroes, heroes, heroes
Thank you to our hereos
Who made our country free.
I loved the elementary school that I attended when I was a child. The school was one long hall with rooms on both sides. I can remember the teachers standing in the doorways every morning waiting on all the kids. When you walked by each one of them, they were usually smiling and always said hello to me by my name. It was a small school and I guess that’s how they knew everyone’s name.