Friday, February 09, 2018

Learning Olympics: Be A Champion

I am always looking for ways to inspire students' engagement and success. As I thought about this today, I decided to use the Olympic spirit as a source of motivation. Students will likely begin watching the Olympics tonight and throughout the next ten days. We can draw from these athletes' hard work and success as we encourage students to persevere to achieve mastery in a number of academic standards and learning behaviors/attitudes. I added this theme to our grade-level website with the images and quotes depicted above.