Here we go!

Good morning Memminger Family,
During the Principal Interview portion of the School Quality Review (SQR) I shared with one of the evaluators that I send a morning message to the staff each day. Ms. Berry encouraged me to start a blog.  Since I'm already writing she told me to think about using technology to take it to the next level.

So here I am.
Somewhere in cyberspace.
At the intersection of blogger.com and and Daily Dose.
Exited and a bit nervous because I'm not sure where this will take us.
But here we go....

First I want to commend everyone for our great first day of SQR. I heard so many complements! I'm excited to see how day #2 goes and to get a final report on what we are doing well and where we have room to grow.
This is a great opportunity for us especially as we go into our upcoming PD day where we'll sit together and talk about what global studies will look like in each of our classrooms, in our hallways and in our expectations.

I agree that we need to think of global as a way of teaching, leading and learning. I believe that Memminger School of Global Studies will be much more than a collection of lessons plans, our magnet will be the way in which we will transport our students and ourselves to a better place in this world.

Global is not the destination but perhaps the vehicle that leads us to becoming compassionate citizens. It's the means in which we develop young people into justice leaders who examine, critique and create, citizens who are not just consumers but producers. Leaders in every sense of the word.

Global stewards because our earth is depending on it.
Global leaders because our society is depending on it.
Global thinkers because the very evolution of humankind is depending on it.
The world is waiting on us.

And so here we are...at an intersection of where we've been, and were we hope to be.
In a speech Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.once gave he asked this question,  "Where do we go from here chaos or community?"
Years later, a different time and place, we look into the eyes of our fellow educators to ask the same question.
Where do we go from here?
How will the next chapter in the book of Memminger begin.

I look forward to the courageous conversations we will have on Friday.
I encourage you all to think about how to bring our global studies magnet to not only the lessons we teach, but the way we teach them. Being a global studies teacher may look differently, may require more, may tap into a higher version of ourselves. And that's a good thing.
It's time to stretch into what we are now becoming...more of who we were always meant to be!

The world awaits.
Dr. N

Today a MSGS:

• Day #2 of SQR (smile)-Teacher Interview Panel will meet with the evaluators Wednesday after dismissal in the CIS room.
• Turn in Parent Information Surveys to Dr. N's box.