Weekly Update

Team,

Need-to-know: 

• Report Cards close at midnight tonight and go out to parents March 16th. A reminder that they are available will go to parents. 
• We will be looking to merge all classes into the café at lunchtime starting after April break. All lunches will be out of the lunchroom at that point. 
• We will be adding two screens and projectors into the cafeteria for meetings and larger group gatherings. If you ever have a level assembly and the aud. is not free, this will be an alternate space for us. 
• Three QUEST students shared at the recent BOE meeting. Kudos to them. They went through the SLED RACE and made connections to IB/Standards/STEM. 
  
• The kitchen has had some issues with students puncturing milk. Please reach out to Derek if you have heard any students mentioning this. 

Chew-on-this: 

Keep-learning:

I receive messages called The Daily Stoic, and this one stuck with me as it made me think about the idea of walking in others' shoes. How easy is it to judge? How easy is it to resent others who hurt us? How easy is it to assume the worst in another person? Everyone is doing the best they can, with what they know and who they are...

We value community and caring, and I appreciate all of your efforts around seeing the good in others. It matters, and our building is meant for continued great things. 

Going back to Socrates we have this idea that most people are doing the best they can, that almost nobody does the wrong thing on purpose. No, they believe what they think is correct, they’re doing what they think is right, what they think is what they’re capable of doing in the moment.

When we interviewed Dr. William Stixrud and Ned Johnson about their book, The Self-Driven Child, they paraphrase an idea from Dr. Ross Greene that’s worth committing to memory: people do well when they can.

People are usually acting with good intentions. So when people wrong you or frustrate you or their actions perplex you, remind yourself that you’re not seeing the whole picture. People have other stuff going on. They don’t have the tools and the resources and the education you have. They don’t have your same sense of good. They aren’t perfect. They can’t do the impossible, so, as Marcus said, you shouldn’t ask the impossible.

Understand this. Commit it to your memory. People do well when they can. Most people are doing the best they can.