"One Thing" for Mon. Feb. 17

At our Professional Development session last Tuesday with Jeffrey Wilhelm, one of the things he stated was that students will only attend to things that teachers give time to. This includes reading. If we spend no time reading in our classrooms (silent reading or reading novels or reading aloud together etc), then the students will not see reading as important.

One of his ideas was to create something that can be updated and shows what we are reading. So Mrs. Hikida made these for all of our staff and handed them out at our staff meeting today:

A couple of us even filled them in already:

So, take a look for these around the school, start a discussion and we'll see where this goes. Sometimes a great idea is a really small one.