The Team is in a Huddle

I don't know this team. I got them off of google images, but the one on the right reminds me of Sam and the cross country days. I like the fact that this team is praying together. Team Building is on my mind today. Mary, please read my friend Amanda's blog--she could use your team building expertise. I have to work on teams a lot--with classroom teachers, principals, other support people, and parents. The first two weeks of my class have been all about kinds of teams, kinds of leaders, kinds of roles on teams, team processes, blah, blah, blah! Of course they sight all types of research and use all kinds of "big" words to describe all these things that, as usual, are just plain common sense. Right now it's taking teamwork to help a new student at one of my schools. She's very sweet and cute and cooperative -- some of the time. But she has an anxiety disorder and a mood disorder and we believe some type of learning disability in math - she's in 7th grade, but performing math at about a 3rd grade level. So some days she comes in to school literally kicking and screaming. I will be teaching her math (most likely)--one more team meeting will decide that. It seems that math is one of the triggers that precipitates the anxiety and the behavior that accompanies it. All of you can be my "team-mates" by praying for this young lady.