What I learned about myself this week

I learned to rely on the teamwork of fellow teachers in achieving desired results with discipline issues and acting in the best interests of the school.

I am having significant discipline issues with one of my students. This student is failing every class including mine and I am the RTI caseholder. One of the other teachers for this student also having similar issues stepped up, filled out all the required paperwork, called the parents, organized a meeting, and firmly held the line on the school's position. Other teachers in the meeting including myself each participated and contributed our own perspective based on our experience with this student. The outcome was an established game plan to help this student be successful at Cherokee HS.

It was really great to have the assistance of the one teacher to help me facilitate the process and gave me a real boost given the paper work and time requirement.