{"id":5947,"date":"2018-04-17T08:21:13","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T15:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/?p=5947"},"modified":"2020-04-29T06:10:47","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T13:10:47","slug":"observe-what-is-with-undivided-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/2018\/04\/17\/observe-what-is-with-undivided-attention\/","title":{"rendered":"Observe What Is with Undivided Attention"},"content":{"rendered":"

The day of our student-led conferences, the morning index card drawing prompt was this:<\/p>\n

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And most responses were variations on this:<\/p>\n

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Like last year, our conferences took the form of families taking part in the kinds of activities we engage in each day, so that they could have a visceral sense of what school life is like for their daughters and sons and brothers and sisters.  Unlike last year, when I led all of the activities, we decided to put the “student” into “student-led”: members of Div. 2 would now do the leading and explaining (with me occasionally dancing like a monkey to fill in the gaps).  I am happy to report that no one vomited (at least that I know of…).<\/p>\n

Families and students alike took part in our morning focus ritual:<\/p>\n