We hope you had a great first week of November!

Our counseling team has been busy preparing for this week's Back to the Basics of Student Behavior 2.0 or "Boot" camp. Dr. OH shared about this in her weekly newsletter today, and we have copied that information in its entirety below.

A brief summary is this: We are working in a very responsive manner in regard to behaviors at Robinson. Most days we do not get to see children who we are scheduled to see or visits to classrooms are interrupted due to us being in this response or crisis mode. We will be working to change this by resetting or rebooting our very basic behavior expectations.

Next week we will reteach all students at Robinson our expected behaviors-- that we are WISE and we are safe, kind, learners-- every student, everyday, everywhere. On Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, members of our counseling team will lead the reteaching in the gym. Each day we will have 2 grade levels in attendance-- appropriately distanced.

Things that stand out as reoccurring problems at Robinson are things like talking back to an adult or yelling at an adult or friend, talking over and interrupting the teacher and classmates, putting hands on others, and leaving the classroom or learning space without permission. Thank you for supporting this teaching and reinforcing this learning at home. We can't do this work without all of us talking about what is expected of learners at Robinson.

We have also had an increase in extremely negative reactions to a lost game or a missed catch in recess. Students who do not play at a "select" level in a sport do not feel welcome to even try to play. There is little or no positive team chat when someone is learning a sport during recess. Some recess games have become so competitive and include such grandstanding that we have to cancel games mid-game or ask a student to not grandstand and that causes them to leave the game.

We appreciate your support in this work. This week ask your student what they learned from us. Ask about being a safe, kind learner-- what does it look like? What are they doing to be a safe, kind learner each day in all of our spaces.

Last Wednesday night we had our first student book study meeting (on zoom) with students in 3rd-5th grades. We are reading Stamped (For Kids), by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi. Thank you to the parent-led Robinson Equity Group (REG) for putting this opportunity together and including us. We had an amazing night full of conversations and sharing. The 15 kids attending showed such incredible insight and maturity.

Finally, an announcement about this communication. We will no longer be writing a weekly news piece. Our Connecting with the Counselors will be a monthly update. If there is important information to share, Dr. OH has agreed to include it in her weekly family newsletter.

If you missed last week's communication, you can access it from this link:

https://www.smore.com/z0ya8

Have a fantastic week and look for our December update around the 5th!