What We Communicate to Our Students

Reading the NMS Classroom Walls

As I walk through classrooms around the building each day, every once in a while I get caught up "reading the walls."  This strategy was something I, and probably every other Massachusetts administrator has been taught to do from the Research for Better Teaching Administrators' course "Observing and Analyzing Teaching" (RBT's OAT, as we would call it).

The messages within our classrooms tell our students what we expect of them; what we want for them; and what we hope they think about us, our classrooms, and our school.

Sometimes the messages are as simple as "Hang in There" with that iconic kitty hanging on a string.  

But then there are more posters that say so much about what we believe, what we care about, and what we want to instill in our students.

Please check out some of the messages we are trying to communicate to our students from the walls of NMS.  I think they are pretty strong, positive messages.

As we head to March, these messages should carry us to some positive results.