The Winner Is:
This is your lucky day, because in an age where everyone gets a ribbon, on this day everyone gets all the ribbons!
- Why did you receive this week’s Special Helper ribbon? I helped a colleague with a tricky union issue
- Why did you receive this week’s Good Sport ribbon? I encouraged an annoying colleague in a genuine manner--I didn't internally roll my eyes
- Why did you receive this week’s Attentive Listener ribbon? One of my students has been absent this week and when she returned today she was full of chatter and I didn't shut her down
- Why did you receive this week’s Good Manners ribbon? I won a prize and sent a thank you note
- Why did you receive this week’s Clean & Tidy ribbon? for leaving my classroom organized, tidy, and dusted which is actually code for I didn't feel like working at the end of the day so I puttered around
1 comment:
Yay for suppressing the eyeroll impulse. I had a colleague who never spoke to me. Like, I'd say good morning and she would grunnt. This went on for a couple of years! She was K-8 and I was 9-12, so we didn't exactly work together and this made it possible for no conversation at all, although we shared a work room.
One morning I got to the work room and could see the copier was driving her crazy. I asked if she wanted help. She just said, "This thing is being impossible!"
So I found the jam and cleared it (I was the copier whisperer at our school), and she never said thank you, but from then on when I said good morning, I always got a good morning back. People are funny. And maybe your encouragement is the tide-shifter. :)
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