Honor. Respect. Responsibility.
Honor. Respect. Responsibility. I read a book last summer that recommended, "It's not the right rules that make a classroom a great place for students to be; it is the right relationships and expectations" (Maynard and Weinstein). One of the key ideas of this book was that we can't expect rules alone to remedy behavior concerns. Without a positive expectation for behavior, there is no clear goal for them to work toward. As I read I realized that my students needed a clear expectations, and I set out to redefine our rules into three clear expectations for behavior. I compiled our school policies and procedures, along with common concerns teachers had expressed and spent time refining three major expectations for our students -- honor, respect, and responsibility. The staff adopted the expectations this last school year, we created posters, and we set out to reinforce school-wide expectations from TK through high school. Honor God Colossians 3:23 says, "Whateve...
