I have to admit that I laughed really hard today when I got my daily email of who was in SMARTS (our school's version of ISS). Eight students, six of which were mine. One of them is actually one of my best students. She's been skipping other classes. But she always comes to mine, always works, and usually is able to get other kids to work with her that normally don't want to do much. She's basically a rock star. AND my student of the month. I tried to break her out, but she went home early.
Today at our end of lunch assembly our principal led us in a moment of silence. Last night a 13 year old boy was stabbed after an altercation (it was all over the news last night). He was a part of our school district, and it hit a little close to home. He probably would have ended up at our school within the next year or two.
One of the boys from my 2nd period class finally came back from SMARTS today. I haven't seen him in weeks. And I welcomed him with a big smile and let him know what was going on. And what happened? He worked. And I tried not to fall over. I don't think I did anything, but this is the same kid who I told once that if he just completed one assignment, I'd take the entire class to the game room for a class period. So it looks like I get to follow through now. Awesome.
In 4th period, I spent most of the time following one of the boys around the room, trying to give him options of what he could do, and taking things out of his hand before he broke something or hit someone with a ruler he picked up. Yay kindergarten! Need to find a new tactic tomorrow.
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