3rd Staff Meeting

This was our third and final staff meeting for the '09 school year. We'll be starting back up in January. Today we finished up the cursory review of Brain Rule #1: Exercise Increased Brain Power.

Our next work is around Attention and I introduced a brief snippet from Dr. Median's tutorial from the book's web page (www.brainrules.net). One of the questions asked was "What do you think you know about attention?"

For the next two staff meetings, that's what we're going to discuss and jump into: Attention. The staff decided to meet 2x per month for staff meetings, rather than weekly on a count of 19 to 7. Fairly easy to assume that many people feel their time is precious!

During January, we're also starting up the full implementation cycle of the brain rules for those who have signed up for full implementation. This is both the planning and studying phase of the rules in anticipation for structural and classroom practice changes for the 2010-2011 year, not that some of the information will lead us to some change right away.

Currently, our official count of staff members that want to move forward with full implementation is: 18. That's a lot, especially with nearly half of those staff members wanting the full implementation with aerobic workout (see previous posts).