It's not the best photo, but I think you can see we have a lot of them. Actually, there are some more on the wall outside the door as well. They were starting to get a little too low to be able to read the names on them.
How does one get such an award? Well, by doing something that shows personal responsibility. Yesterday, two of my girls got awards because they came to me and asked for help with writing decimals in expanded notation. Two days ago, two other girls got awards because they were writing summaries of what they read during I May Time in reading. They weren't required to do that, but they both took the initiative to do that. Over the last two weeks nine students got awards for signing up to be part of main idea strategy groups.
What else? Picking a seat away from friends in order to get work done has been awarded. Deciding to review math videos and take notes when everyone else chose to play online math games has resulted in an award. Getting up and moving away from a distraction so that work is getting accomplished has been noticed and an award has been posted. Really the list of awards given out is much more extensive and the possible ways that they can show responsibility could go on and on.
I look forward to adding more and more awards, even if they do eat up my ink. :)
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