Monday Memo Musings

Listening to CBC news today they spoke of the Oiler's 3 at home wins, ( a rarity).  Hall says t he wins are attributed to the coach showing  them some video. In the video the  players are asked the question, Will you go for the puck? When put it in those simple terms, players reacted and now put forth that extra effort to go for the puck.  What if we made a video for schools... A student walks in- the staff can go for the puck (that student) or they can just let the puck go by. A student doesn't show up to school for a week. The staff can grind it out in the corner and find out where she he is, or they can just let it go by. A student is looking unhealthy, staff can give the student an orange and ask what's up, or they can let that puck go by. At the learning Stores and in Zama kids know we don't let pucks go by. We put forth that extra effort to make sure our students complete work, move along the road to graduation...

Where the magic happens... So Steve's conference took us to Disney World for three days. He learned that everything is manipulated there. No visible tattoos allowed, staff are trained and trained and trained. There motto is:" to go over an above expectations." Disney World is a pretty special place. They've designed it to be a" perfect world." No garbage, everyone is so kind, magic happens all around you. Employees are called "cast members." It is almost perfect... What they can't control are the parent children interactions and the tantrums. So... perfect can't be achieved, the people factor stops that from happening. Thank goodness... otherwise you'd feel like you were in the Truman Movie or the Stepford movie. The magic does happen there... but kids and parents also cry there, have fits there and are normal there. Thank goodness for normal.  We love our normal. Some kids come in to school some don't. Some kids grab materia...

I'm reading a book called " Katie's Kisses," about a nineteen year old who goes to Uganda to teach kindergarten and ends up adopting 5 little girls. She speaks about the fact her adopted girls have real toys, but they prefer to play with garbage; old pill bottles, boxes, ribbons, string and brown bags. So she let's them, because that is what they need to do. As I read that touching book of her providing for over 104 orphans, I thought what can I do. There I was lying in my comfortable bed,  and I said to myself "some..... day............. I'll do something... " Then the phone rang. I couldn't believe it, it was Canadian Feed the Children, asking for a donation to provide food to needy children in Africa. What amazing that timing!!! The time for me to help was now.  Katie taught me to give others what they need, not what they want. The addicted guy at Extra Foods wanted money from me but  that's not what he needed... so I pulled out a ban...

Thank you snow, for patiently waiting for the kids to trick or treat, then dumping on us.  My story. The cutest little princess came to my door on her own, while Mom and dad waited on the sidewalk. What a chatty royale!! She started saying how cute my puppies were, talked about the candy I put in her bag. She then looked in my living room window, looked up at me and asked," What's the score of the ball game?" Of course Steve was watching the world series and obviously Princess has been watching with her dad too. Soooo cute! Staffing I believe we are all here this week. Great! I am in High Level on Monday. Tuesday morning High Level for the diploma then Rainbow in the PM. High Level am Wednesday, Zama on Wednesday pm. La Crete and Fort on Thursday, in High Level Friday at F.M.C.S. for late morning to meet with Psychologist about the Zama kids.  Events/ Items of Note Clocks set back. Loved that hour, did throw us off a bit, we h...

Please take the time to vote today. Educate yourself , make a decision and vote. So cool that we have that right and that freedom to elect our own government. This is a right many people do not have.  Do you know your human rights? Here are just a few.  You have the right to life and to live in freedom and safety. Everyone has the right to be protected by law. We can all ask the law to help us if we are not treated fairly. Nobody should harm our good name. Nobody has the right to come into our home, open our letters, or bother us or our family without good reason.  We have the right to meet our friends and to work together in peace to defend our rights.Nobody can make us join a group if we don't want to. Excerpts from the book, " We Are All Born Free." The Declaration of Human Rights in pictures Staffing Darren and Petra are of to Geek Conference. There will be subs in for them on Friday.  Petra is out next Monday and Tu...