September WELCOME Message from Principal Pasarow
It’s been an amazing first week here at Edna Brewer! We started our work on community building with PACT class on Wednesday, in which teachers and students worked to define The Brewer Way. PACT class lessons will be focused on The Brewer Way and the student handbook for the six weeks that make up the first marking period. Teachers have also been using this first week to build classroom culture and to teach routines. As administrators walked through classes this week, we got to see some pretty amazing things, including:
* student role plays that demonstrated the right and wrong ways to execute class procedures
* teachers sharing personal experiences to build community and to demonstrate personal efficacy
* positive behavioral incentives in use(ACT tickets, public praise), and student-to-student discourse
on goals and possibilities
But our staff didn’t leave it at that. At lunchtime, a significant number of our teachers came out to the courtyard to dine with their students. A person walking the halls after school or during conference periods would have found more experienced Brewer teachers coaching and encouraging some of our newer team members as they embarked on this challenging work. During passing periods, children could be heard encouraging their classmates to make it to class on time.
All of these things point to this being the start of an amazing year. We look forward to working with you in the service of our children!
