Reflections

When I was a Middle School Principal, I worked closely with our school counselor. In so many ways, he was my right arm. We touched base nearly every morning and tackled any pressing items that were on deck, problem solved solutions for students,  and discussed what we were seeing from each of our lenses as people in our school community. We led student conferences, co-taught team building lessons to kids and facilitated discussions with groups of students on various topics as issues would arise within our school. There was a time we found out about a crazy you tube video that was circulating that kids were watching at home and repeating. We pulled groups of kids together and talked about the dangers of it. There were other times where we saw a group of girls repeatedly using derogatory words towards each other. We held a girls group session over two recess periods to talk about female empowerment and the strength and weakness in the words we chose. The list of our mini sessions i...