Memo Minutes
Volume Two
Mirror images are often a welcoming embrace of something pleasant to see. Mirror images are the surface image; the shiny outside; the outward appearance; sometimes able to depict what is really at the core. Our Petree students have at the core of their academic experience the values of Success, Teamwork, Attitude and Respect. They know that Success means to be a finisher. Teamwork means to be a listener. Attitude means to be a learner and Respect means to be a leader. These core values are woven throughout our school’s vision, mission statement and commitment statements.
Our students look forward each day to coming to school. When they come, they look daily into a mirror. This mirror is the teacher. The image of learning, perseverance, caring, responsibility, and leadership is the reflection given to our students which shapes the core of their academic experience.
Teachers, you hold a precious and fragile mirror within your persona of teaching. You hold a valuable commodity within your implementation; your style; your presentation, and communication of learning to your students. This priceless mirror is you! Imagine everyday that your students will see in you the reflection they need to catapult them closer towards becoming lifelong learners. When you imagine yourself as the mirror they are looking into, the desire to polish that mirror becomes instinctive. Continue to be a polisher of your mirror—a polisher of your profession. Continue to prepare yourself daily through the deep study of your craft so that when you teach, your students will see the image which will be the welcoming embrace of something pleasant ----- a student of high academic achievement and a student of lifelong learning and knowledge. Continue to be the mirror image your students need to see in order to achieve. Keep it polished. Principal, Shelia F. Burlock
Quote for the minute: “There is a brilliant child locked inside every student.”
Marva Collins, American Educator.
