Families,

Thank you for how you showed up for conferences and your support as we’ve made it one quarter of the way through the school year! This next quarter will fly by with holidays and many events happening inside our school over the next two months – it’s going to be fun :).

Today has been the beginning as there is such joy in seeing students dressed up! All day students have loved pretending and are smiling with what they see on one another. Every student here at Rolling has so much to offer just being themself and today captured that as everyone had fun pretending too. As adults, we have such an important position as we get to foster that belief or not. In education, we have learned through research, that one of the top three ways that we can impact learning is simply through believing. Not a wish, but a true belief that a student can and the support that backs that up.

The connection for me is that on a day like today, students get to “pretend” with a sense of belief as they dress up in costumes. It can be fun to watch as kids will live out that belief through pretending and dressing up. The reflection then is how much more powerful it can be when the adults that are around children believe too. In this case, not the costumes from today, but belief that students really can. That where they are now does not decide their future. That through the power of belief, matched by actions that show it’s real, students will achieve.

When students believe that the adults around them believe in them, we truly have the power to change the world. I heard a speaker once say that there is no world, only 8 billion interpretations of it. So if we change the life of one person, even only one person, we’ve changed the world. So let’s do that together.

– David Burden

Principal

 Mr. Burden’s November Family Newsletter