Many years ago I went to a conference and the major thing that I took away from it was one tiny phrase - not even a sentence, that I wrote down in my notebook: "assume good intentions of each-other." After that I wrote myself a little to-do list and number six on that list is, "assume good intentions of all staff." I like to think that I have gotten really great at this over the years, but the truth is that I often slip up. Sometimes I get caught up in the false assumption that one of my colleagues is doing something because they are mean or they are trying to not value others. What a silly thought. Do we really think that our colleagues, other teachers, other humans who went into the education field to work with and help students learn... do we really think that they would INTENTIONALLY do something to hurt our students or their fellow co-workers? Lets be real here. We all can have moments of selfishness. We all can have reactions to circumstances that, upon reflection, don't make us proud. We are all human.
I love the Brene Brown quote above. I think it is SO important to remember that we're all in this together. What good does it do to assume that others are intentionally making bad decisions or poor choices in how they work their classroom or the master schedule or behavior interventions? Seriously. What good does that do? Can you think of anything? I cannot.
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