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INFORMATION & ANNOUNCEMENTS:
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*Back to School Night & Tailgate 18/19: August 7th from 5-7
Confidential Information: As more and more parents are around our school, please make sure you are aware of who's around you when you're having confidential conversations. (i.e IEP supports and behaviors) Thank you!!!
Josh out: Josh will be out Monday. Trevor and Megan are in charge.
Girls on the Run: If you wanted to add in info about Girls on the Run in the blog, the girls are running in their 5K race in Sacramento on Saturday 5/12! Thank you to Melissa and Dana for handling this amazing running group.
*CAASPP Information: Last week of testing! Thank you for your flexibility as we try to create the best possible testing environment and schedule for our kids.
BLOG Focus Article: Too often we wait for someone with a certain job description to “fix” a seemingly broken culture, and while it is certainly frustrating when the one tasked with leading doesn’t rise to that occasion, we have a moral imperative to step up to the plate to make our schools places where humans grow and thrive because our students and those who work on students’ behalf deserve it. If we all take responsibility for influencing school culture, how can we best leverage our influence?
Assume best intent
Probably the most impactful shift we can make is to establish a norm of assuming best intent. Think back to a time when your supervisor assumed the worst about a situation in which you were involved or oversaw. Maybe he or she assumed you were not working hard enough or did not care enough, but in reality, you didn’t have all the necessary information to complete the job effectively or efficiently.
Did his/her assumption of worst intent motivate you? Did it make you want to go above and beyond? Probably not. Oftentimes assuming the worst actually has the opposite effect. While it might intimidate people into compliance, if they’re already doing the best they can with what they know, that won’t make much of a difference. In the end, they’ll just hide their inadequacies from you or avoid taking risks out of fear that they will disappoint again. On the other hand, when people assume the best in others, we’re given the benefit of the doubt, and that trust in us empowers us to take risks, use our creativity, think outside the box, and dive into finding solutions for complex problems.
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