Embrace
Possibilities: Can I do a “peer observation” of Alisha?

Our girls love Alisha. Case and point is that our frosh
council, after only being students here for a few weeks, insisted that Alisha be a part of their homecoming wall. True to the “There’s No Place
Like Homecoming” theme she is pictured as Glenda the Good Witch helping our little
cartoon protagonists over to CHS (aka Oz).

What strikes me is the rapport and community that Alisha is
able to build with our girls given the fact that she only gets to interact with
them in the brief moments of the day when they are crossing the street. How
does she do that?? I wanna be like her!

I am wondering if we should be doing “peer observations” of
our non-teaching staff and thinking about what insights there are to gain by
seeing our students out of the classroom? How could we better serve or
empathize with our students? What insights can we gain about being role models?
I would love to stand at the cross walk with Alisha for a day, be with Cuco in
the Garventa Center during break serving up hash browns, sit in the attendance
office with Malissa during flu season on a rainy morning with heavy traffic, sweep
the halls at the end of lunch with Chris and Darrell, or sit in on a college
counseling meeting.

My goal for this year is to embrace possibilities and to
look for new ways to gain insight to our community and the people in it. I do
plan on doing these peer observations next semester and hoping a few of you
will join me. Maybe it could be a thing?