Every day I struggle with which parts of my students’ stories can I share and which would be too personal or too embarassing/mortifying. I struggle because I am frequently in awe of the growth I see in our kids, so I’ve settled my struggle with sharing “Little Bits”.

Today’s Little Bits included seeing the pride in a little one’s eyes as he realized he is reading better and watching two high school students work through a problem and misunderstandings with maturity and compassion.

This week, we have had two outside visitors join us, Ms. Gilliard’s son who had a day off of school and Dr. Sheffel who is a professor in special education and mathematics at Michigan State University. Ms. Gilliard’s son was welcomed in by her class as well as a high school student who assists in her class once a week. Those types of natural situations for modeling skills for our students always put a smile on my face. I can not imagine not being able to take those opportunities for natural learning!

Dr. Sheffel greatly appreciated her morning observing in math classes and was thrilled that she could see theory in practice. I was also proud of our students who were willing and quite articulate in showing her different methods used to support math at LMA.

Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidays!

In short, this holiday season I am thankful for the commitment our staff, parents, board and students have to learning and growing!!

Mrs. B