Staying Vulnerable & "Rising Strong" - Follow-up Post

Update for May 23-27

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about being inspired by Brene' Brown's book Rising Strong to stay vulnerable in order to grow as a leader.

I set up times for my staff members to provide me with face-to-face feedback on these questions:

• What should I start doing?
• What should I stop doing?

• What should I continue doing?

• Is my vision for learning evident?

• Are my expectations clear and realistic?

• Do I provide good feedback and positive reinforcement?

• Can I be trusted?

• How could I help you more?

While not everyone took me up on the opportunity to provide me with feedback, those who did helped me in a very meaningful way.

"Start doing"? Those answered ranged from "Watch how you react to situations; you seem to wear your heart on your sleeve" to "I can't figure you out - You always seem to be wearing a poker face in situations".

That was all good feedback, but I had to laugh at that!

"Stop doing" responses included "You don't need to do a blog post every week", "You sometimes are sending too many emails" and "I want to know what is going on, so "stop" not including us in some of the details."

Another opportunity to chuckle.

There were slices of moments when the implicit message from staff members affirms things I am doing well and causes me to pause and reflect on the things I am not.

I have realized from this opportunity that I have to provide a range of leadership that attempts to meet the needs of my staff and parents.  

I need to differentiate my leadership - Be explicit with feedback and be more telling with some while planting seeds and leading from behind with others. The former pushes me to try and get better -- It puts me outside of my comfort zone which means I will probably fail or fall short of expectations during this journey.

But I'm ready for that.

As Dr. Brown states in Rising Strong,

"I believe that vulnerability -- the willingness to show up and be seen with no guarantee of outcome -- is the only path to more love, belonging, and joy."

I am committed to staying vulnerable and I challenge each of my staff to do the same.  

I challenge you to create a time when you can offer your students the chance to provide you with feedback on the experience you provided them with this year.  It will be affirming, uncomfortable, challenge and probably one of the best professional learning opportunities you will have this year.

I would love to know if you take this opportunity to get better and how it turned out!

In the meantime, have a GREAT week!

-Herb

Tweets Worth Checking Out --

In order to tell the difference between successful and unsuccessful people, examine their habits. pic.twitter.com/JOTaGN8dLX

— Dr. Mike Goddard (@drmike_goddard) May 22, 2016

#Makerspaces can help bring arts back to school. We need more #STEAM education - https://t.co/k65WBV1juO @Slate pic.twitter.com/nOzSSa6M3P

— Makerspaces.com (@Makerspaces_com) May 22, 2016

"An Important Teacher Decision: When and When Not to Give the Answer?" https://t.co/TkXwlyBCig #math

— Herb Higginbotham (@HHigginbotham) May 22, 2016

Don't miss @khmmc's double guest posts abt discovering lrners & UDL @BrookesPubCo https://t.co/mEWqfmGtNe #satchatwc pic.twitter.com/syMTU2qI7H

— Personalize Learning (@plearnchat) May 21, 2016

Why young kids learn through movement https://t.co/cLCBhKHSvN #K12 @TheAtlantic

— Ohio School Boards (@OHschoolboards) May 21, 2016

A new report looks at the skills gap for new graduates https://t.co/L6uiPjI2xH by @lydiabreakfast via @FastCompany

— Herb Higginbotham (@HHigginbotham) May 18, 2016

Upcoming Dates -- 

May 23-Jun 3 -- No PD dates (includes Assessment Days)

May 26 — Last Grow Together Thursday

May 30 -- Holiday, NO SCHOOL

May 31 -- ADE PTO Family Luau, 6-8PM -- It's a great time to relax and have fun with families! I ended up in a conga line last year and that's saying something!

Jun 3 -- Last Day of School (Students)
Jun 10 -- Secretaries' last day to report
Jun 24 -- Herb's last day to report

Growing the New School Year

Update for Aug 31-Sept 4

Photo Credit: WikiCommons

"What you focus on, grows."

"How are you going to top last year?"

I didn't know it 12 months ago, but these two quotes have a lot to do with each other.  The first one I've heard and read about over the past couple of years.  The second one came from a parent I ran into over the summer.  I had a response for the parent, but it took an amazing first year experience and the opportunity for me to work with excellent educators, parents, and students for me to have a response.

Last year when I started my new journey with Alton Darby Elementary, I committed to focusing on very few things such as relationships, listening, and putting students first.  I believe that being intentional about what I focused on helped me evolve my focus to empowering other stakeholders to make decisions. Relationships, empowerment, and student-centered learning were what I hoped to grow.  While the work I do with these three concepts will never be finished, I am proud of the progress we have made so far.

So, how did I respond to the second quote?  The one from the parent?

"Wow.  Thanks!  I'm flattered that you said that, but now I wonder if I should be concerned with the pressure to have another great year!  You know what?  I actually don't feel that pressure the way I thought I would.  I've realized that it's not up to me to top last year.  It's actually the work that we all will do together that will determine the year we have.  We have a great team of teachers and I am also looking forward to working more with parents to help us continue to redefine what the elementary learning experience should be for kids."

As we start another amazing school year, I am still committed to growing relationships, empowering others, and focusing on what's best for kids.  I believe in the work we do for kids each day, I believe in the power of the team, and I can't wait to see where we go to next!

Have a great week!


Articles Worth Reading

"Hopes for the Future" by George Couros

"What a Student Learned From a Short Experiment in Self-Directed Learning" by Jenny Brundin

The best resource is only as good as Ts knowledge of reading, writing & content & ability to adapt resource to Ss needs & interests. #edchat

— Regie Routman (@regieroutman) August 20, 2015

"The Many, Many Problems With "Follow Your Passions" by William MacAskill


Video Worth Watching





Upcoming Dates

Mon, Aug 31 -- PTO Planning Meeting, 6:00pm
Tues, Sept 1 -- Building Improvement Team meeting
Wed, Sept 2 -- Staff Meeting, 8am; Focus on Writing Mantras and I-Time
Wed, Sept 2 -- Fire drill (more details in email)
Thur, Sept 3 -- Admin Meeting (Herb); L. McNaughton building visit PM
Fri, Sept 4 -- FIELD DAY!; BAC meeting if any agenda items submitted by Weds.
Mon, Sept 7 -- Labor Day, No School
Tues, Sept 8 -- Team Connection Time w/ Herb; Let me know if you or your team would like to meet!; Mumkin Orders due
Mon, Sept 14 -- PTO General Meeting, 6:30pm
Wed, Sept 16 -- Parent EdCamp!, 5:30-7pm
Mon, Sept 21 -- Safety Training Day, No Students
Thur, Sept 24 -- Picture Day!

Assumptions

Update for Oct 6 -10

During my junior year in college, I took a class on the history of U.S. diplomacy. Now, I am sure the title alone causes your eyes to glaze over, but it was an exciting course for me.  I enjoyed the discussions we had about the factors that caused major events in our country’s history and it was one of my favorite courses during college.  

The final exam for the course was to write a paper that argued a certain perspective on U.S. diplomatic history. I had drafted the paper, made my revisions and on the night before the paper was due, I started typing on my roommate’s laptop. Near the end, a major fail happened. It was a fail that is so cliche that I should have predicted it would happen.

The laptop went completely dead.

All of my work was gone.  I had nothing to turn in for the final exam.

I looked at the clock.  It was past midnight. What was I going to do? I felt anger, despair, anxiety, and nausea all within 5 minutes.

I decided that I needed to find another computer and try to write my argument from memory. I went to one of the 24-hour computer labs on campus and spent the next 5 hours trying to recall my line of thinking.  By the start of class, I had my paper written.  

I was tired; so tired I was jumpy and disoriented, but the paper was done. At the start of class, I went up to my professor to hand in the paper.  I knew that I should have said something to him like, “My laptop crashed on me last night. This isn’t my best work.  Could I (get some sleep and) have an extra day?”

Instead I just turned and walked away.

To my dismay, I got a C on the paper.  Too many mistakes and the line of thinking wasn’t clear. Both of those issues would have been resolved if I had asked for more time.

The problem was I didn’t want to bother the professor with my problem.  It wasn’t his fault the laptop crashed. Why would I deserve to have more time? Instead of just talking to my professor, I assumed he didn’t want to be bothered. He had never given me or any of the other students any indication that he didn’t want to help us. In fact, he made it quite clear he wanted to help.

But I still assumed that he didn’t want to be bothered.

I bring this story up because I am finding myself on the other side of that situation. I am getting this sense that others see me as unapproachable or someone that can’t be bothered. I’m not quite sure what to make of it yet. Maybe it’s because we are still getting to know each other as principal and staff. Or maybe I am just assuming everyone knows that I am willing to help.

So I want to take this opportunity to share with you, in print, that I am here for you.

I am here to listen, to help, to celebrate, to encourage, and to support you.  The work we do together for kids is so important that I want to do whatever I can to make that work excellent for every second of the day.

So if you are having a problem or you are worried about something, please let me know. Call me at 3:00am, I will answer.  If you want to meet me at 6:00am, I will be there.

Just know that I am here to lead and I am here to serve.

Upcoming Dates --

Tue Oct 7, 2014
3rd Grade Fall Reading OAA --
The assessment will take place in the morning, but some students may be working on the assessment throughout the day. Please help provide a quiet learning environment on this day.
  

8am - 9am Building Improvement Team mtg -- Team members - Please be ready to share examples of PBIS in other buildings (A Google search will provide many examples).  We will be working on finalizing the "matrix".  Thanks!

Fri Oct 10, 2014   

9:30-11:00am Kids’ EdCamp!

Mon Oct 13, 2014   

3:35-4:20 ADE/DCR Staff Meeting at ADE

6:30pm - 7pm PTO Executive Mtg

7pm - 8pm PTO General Mtg

Thu Oct 16, 2014   

Spirit Day

Fri Oct 17, 2014

Central Ohio In-Service Day - No School for Students

Wed Oct 22, 2014

3:35-4:20 ADE/DCR Staff Meeting at ADE

Mon Oct 27, 2014

Yearbook Art Contest Begins (Ends Nov 7)

Tue Oct 28, 2014

Fall Concert at Bradley High School

Thu Oct 30, 2014

5:30pm - 6:30pm Market Day

Fri Oct 31, 2014

Halloween

Tue Nov 4, 2014

Waiver Day - Half-Day Meeting at DCR

Fri Nov 7, 2014

Newsletter Home

Yearbook Art Contest Ends

8am - 9am Building Advisory Committee Meeting

Articles Worth Reading

“But why aren’t you hysterical?” by Seth Godin

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2014/10/but-why-arent-you-hysterical.html

The EdCamp Mindset - How An “Unconference” Can Yield An “Unclass” http://theasideblog.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-edcamp-mindset-how-unconference-can.html

Start With Strengths: Change the Lens. Change the Story.  http://chriswejr.com/2014/09/10/start-with-strengths-change-the-lens-change-the-story/#.VDHXeFF1dgc.twitter

Videos Worth Watching

EdCamp? Hope not…

The flipped household…

In It Together

Update for Sept 29 - Oct 3

I don't like to make promises, but I promise you I will try to show gratitude for the work you do for kids day in and day out. So let me start by saying thank you. Thank you for helping me throughout the entire week. Your help and support made a huge difference for me.

I have to be honest. Last week was one that took a lot of my time and energy. However, the best part of last week was actually how "busy" it really was. Last week helped me see that we have folks within our learning community who will step up and say, "How can I help?".

It's that kind of response to challenges and difficult situations that allow us to realize our potential for taking on future challenges.  I am confident that, together, we will be able to continue our work in creating a learning community that works for the kids we serve.

Thank you for a great week!

Reminds / Upcoming Dates --

EdCamp Logistics –
On Monday, I will be contacting students who have yet to turn in an EdCamp Session choice or students who will need to make a 4th choice due to sessions being full.  I hope to get session confirmations to student by Tuesday.

Data Team Dates –

We will be starting our half-day release times for Data Teams on the following dates:

·       Oct 22 – 5^th Grade, half-day AM; 4^th Grade half-day PM

·       Oct 23 – 3^rd Grade, half-day AM; 2^nd Grade half-day PM

·       Oct 30 – KG half-day AM; 1st Grade half-day PM (This is a switch in order to coordinate 1/2 time teachers' schedules).

More information will be coming to you in the near future. I just wanted to get these dates out to you.

Interims – Oct 3

I would like for you to take this opportunity to communicate with parents how their child is doing so far with the material you are focusing on at this time in the year. Just like you, I believe that supporting the growth and success of each of our kids is the most important aspect of the work I do. Please turn your interims into my mailbox by Wednesday, Oct 1 so that I have a chance to review each of the interims.  I appreciate your support. Please see me if you have any questions.

Why is he in here? -- 

I’ve had a couple of folks ask my why I am in classrooms nearly every day.  I appreciate that others may be wondering too, so I wanted to share with you my response.

The work that teachers do is the most important work that is being done within our learning community. Seeing the instructional best practices and strategies that are being utilized by teachers is the best way for me to support the work you do. It’s like checking the heartbeat of the building.

When I walk into a class and stick around for a bit, I always try to see things from the students’ perspective. I use a framework of four questions that I ask from the perspective of the child that helps me form an understanding of the learning experience:

1. What is important for me to do in today's lesson? (Learning Target)
2. What​​ must I learn to be able to do it? (Lesson-sized chunk of content knowledge & skill)
3. How will I be asked to show that I can do it? (Performance of understanding)
4. How well will I have to do it? (Success criteria or "look for")

Upcoming Dates –

Mon Sep 29, 2014
Submit items for BAC agenda to Herb by the end of the day.

Wed Oct 1, 2014
Interims due in Herb’s mailbox
12:30-1:30 Special Education Department Meeting

Thu Oct 2, 2014       
Mumkin Delivery
5:30pm - 6:30pm Market Day

Fri Oct 3, 2014       
K-5 Interims Due
Newsletter Home
8am - 9am Building Advisory Committee Meeting
After school - ? Setup for Warrior Dash

Sat Oct 4, 2014
Warrior Dash! 10:00am - 2:00ish (Grade-specific start times).  Here is more information about Warrior Dash -- DASH INFO

Tue Oct 7, 2014       
8am - 9am Building Improvement Team mtg -- Team members - Please be ready to share examples of PBIS in other buildings (A Google search will provide many examples).  We will be working on finalizing the "matrix".  Thanks!

Fri Oct 10. 2014       
9:30-11:00am Kids’ EdCamp

Mon Oct 13, 2014   
3:35-4:20 ADE/DCR Staff Meeting at ADE
6:30pm - 7pm PTO Executive Mtg
7pm - 8pm PTO General Mtg

Thu Oct 16, 2014       
Spirit Day
6pm - 8:30pm Tailgate Party

Fri Oct 17, 2014        Central Ohio In-Service Day - No School for Students 

Videos That Inspire-

Articles Worth Reading -- 

"What Our Fear Actually Inhibits" - http://georgecouros.ca/blog/archives/4801 …via +George Couros

"Lead with the heart" http://smartblogs.com/leadership/2014/09/25/lead-with-the-heart/ … via @SBLeaders

Building Capacity to Lead

Update for Sept 22 - 26

This week was an amazing example of what happens when we allow ourselves to be creative in order to provide unique learning experiences for kids.

What we did as a learning community to celebrate International Dot Day was an act of brave creativity. We trusted each other to coordinate 900+ students into one large dot in the middle of the field we share with Darby Creek Elementary. I appreciate how we modeled for our students what it looks like to collaborate and create something that is bigger than ourselves. What started as an idea turned into reality because we were able to work together and recognize this was going to be a special moment.

What I hope each of you take away from International Dot Day is this --

• If you want to try something new, go for it. 
• If your kids want to try something new, tell them to go for it. 
• When you have an idea that puts kids at the center of something that will deepen their understanding of themselves and the world around them, go for it.

Give your kids and give yourself permission to take a risk and to try something new.

You never know what might happen.

Reminders/Upcoming Dates

EdCamp Logistics –

·       If you haven’t sent home your copies of the “Kids EdCamp Session Catalog”, please do so on Monday.

·       Be prepared to collect session choices from students. It would be helpful to keep the choice forms in order as students turn them in to you.  You can send the choice forms down to the office each morning.

·       We will be entering the choice form information into a Google Form that will allow us to organize the information.

Data Team Dates –

We will be starting our half-day release times for Data Teams on the following dates:

·       Oct 22 – 5^th Grade, half-day AM; 4^th Grade half-day PM

·       Oct 23 – 3^rd Grade, half-day AM; 2^nd Grade half-day PM

·       Oct 30 – 1^st Grade, half-day AM; KG half-day PM

More information will be coming to you in the near future. I just wanted to get these dates out to you.

Interims – Oct 3

I would like for you to take this opportunity to communicate with parents how their child is doing so far with the material you are focusing on at this time in the year. Just like you, I believe that supporting the growth and success of each of our kids is the most important aspect of the work I do. Please turn your interims into my mailbox by Wednesday, Oct 1 so that I have a chance to review each of the interims.  I appreciate your support. Please see me if you have any questions.

Why is he in here? -- 

I’ve had a couple of folks ask my why I am in classrooms nearly every day.  I appreciate that others may be wondering too, so I wanted to share with you my response.

The work that teachers do is the most important work that is being done within our learning community. Seeing the instructional best practices and strategies that are being utilized by teachers is the best way for me to support the work you do. It’s like checking the heartbeat of the building.

When I walk into a class and stick around for a bit, I always try to see things from the students’ perspective. I use a framework of four questions that I ask from the perspective of the child that helps me form an understanding of the learning experience:

1. What is important for me to do in today's lesson? (Learning Target)
2. What​​ must I learn to be able to do it? (Lesson-sized chunk of content knowledge & skill)
3. How will I be asked to show that I can do it? (Performance of understanding)
4. How well will I have to do it? (Success criteria or "look for")

I look forward to being in your class this week and to the professional conversations that follow!

Upcoming Dates –

Tue Sep 23, 2014

Scheduled Team Time w/ Herb – Let me know if your team would like to meet during your planning time!

Wed Sep 24, 2014   
Biometric Screening – Preschool Conference Room
3:35-4:20 ADE/DCR Staff Meeting at ADE

Thu Sep 25, 2014       
Picture Day! (Gifted Classroom) – It’s Picture Day -- a day of needed patience and organization. Please help the learning continue in the intermediate hallway by helping your students minimize the noise.

Wed Oct 1, 2014
Interims due in Herb’s mailbox

Thu Oct 2, 2014       
Mumkin Delivery
5:30pm - 6:30pm Market Day

Fri Oct 3, 2014       
K-5 Interims Due
Newsletter Home
8am - 9am Building Advisory Committee Meeting

Tue Oct 7, 2014       
8am - 9am Building Improvement Team mtg

Fri Oct 10. 2014       
9:30-11:00am Kids’ EdCamp

Mon Oct 13, 2014   
3:35-4:20 ADE/DCR Staff Meeting at ADE
6:30pm - 7pm PTO Executive Mtg
7pm - 8pm PTO General Mtg

Thu Oct 16, 2014       
Spirit Day
6pm - 8:30pm Tailgate Party

Fri Oct 17, 2014        Central Ohio In-Service Day - No School for Students

Articles Worth Reading -

"Before You Move Onto the Next Big Thing… | The Principal of Change" http://feedly.com/k/1r3iHjB 

“You just listened, so then I could figure it out” http://shar.es/1aWAsP  

Digital Learning Is Just Different http://www.teachthought.com/technology/why-digital-learning-is-just-different/ … via @teachthought

Recovery in Education

Update for Sept 8-12

This week's update is a guest post from Mr. Thom Wendt.  Please let me know if you are interested in being a guest blogger.  We are a community of learners and I would love to share your story of learning.

If you walk the planet for very long, you will be recovering from something.  We recover, or are in recovery, from hardships like ailing parents, the loss of a mother, a sick child, the loss of a pet, a rejection from a date, a lost game, a financial setback, a disappointment in a friendship, unspeakable hurts, and countless others.  We are creative beings and can learn a great deal from how nature creates, recreates and recovers itself in some of the most fascinating ways.  Life’s blessings and hardships allow us to experience our ultimate creation; ourselves.

As I approach 35 years of experience in education, I reflect on how my career has been created over time.  How in the beginning I was not aware of what I did not know, and as a result, I had less stress about the work I was doing.  I did not know that I did not know what needed to be done to leave my mark, or make a difference in the life of a student or colleague.  As I reach departure from a career that has encompassed a great deal of my identity, I realize that by the time I became efficient in knowing how to do my job, the time has come to check out of my profession according to the rules.  Now in my final year, every day a comment or observation is made about my retirement.  It is bittersweet, as I recreate how I will continue to teach, lead, serve, or survive.

I may joke about my age or experience, but seldom see myself as old.  My friends and family shake their heads that I single-handedly moved six ton of of gravel one day this summer with a wheelbarrow and shovel, and wanted to go for a quick slalom water ski afterwards.  It is my goal to leave knowing I owned every second that this world could give.  I know hard work (bullheadedness) is in my DNA from watching my father as a farmer and laborer in gainful employment for 72 years.  My father is like the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Tree.

 I recently discovered the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Tree and realized the lessons it can provide us, as we are mere infants in comparison.  The Bristlecone Pine is the oldest single living organism in the world.  They live in California and one has been dated to nearly 5,000 years old.  It has been alive since before the Pyramids and 3,000 years prior to the time that Jesus Christ walked the Earth.  They only live in the harshest of conditions.  Freezing nights, hot days, little rain, barren soil, pelting sandstorms: all are a requirement of their success.  They attain a great age not in spite of their harsh environment, but because of it.  A harsh environment is what turns a regular Bristlecone Pine Tree into an Ancient one.  The dense and resinous wood created by the harsh conditions make it resistant to disease and fire, the two great killers of all trees.  The only way to become an Ancient Bristlecone Pine Tree is to go through harsh conditions.

The Ancient Bristlecone Pine - The California Environmental Legacy Project

On a much smaller scale, I have witnessed how as educators, we have at times endured great challenges and hardships.  And as I look over my career and the school experience my sons have endured, I see some scars and gnarled practices.  Like personal recovery, the audacity of hope is what sometimes sustains us to face the next day.  As I observe where we are headed, I would rename “educational reform” to “educational recovery.”  Moving toward innovation, student interest, the whole child, teacher autonomy, shared leadership, collaboration, relationship building, the arts, recreation, and the joy in life long learning, allow us to recreate and recover what lead us to our passion in teaching.  

All those initiatives have been present, in our DNA, and in some cases, laying dormant.  They will emerge in a new form like fresh flowers in spring.  Like Death Valley, even a little rain will allow dormant seeds to recover and survive for awhile in the harsh environment.  So we must bloom where we are planted and embrace the beauty in recovering what lies within and ahead.  I will move on to a new season.  You will carry the torches of those who have left before you, and leave your mark.  We may be a million miles from a million dollars, but no one can spend the wealth we have co-created in touching the lives of children.

Sir Ken Robinson’s TED Talk captures so much of what I have witnessed and value in our profession.  It will reaffirm what you already know to be true about what is gnarled and what constitutes a recovery or rebirth!

Sir Ken Robinson, How to Escape Education’s Death Valley

Thom Wendt is an Intervention Teacher at Alton Darby Elementary.

Up-coming Dates

Mon Sep 8, 2014

Mumkin Sale Ends

Team Time with Herb - During your team's planning time. 
This is voluntary, so please let me know if you would like to meet at this time.

6:30pm - 7pm PTO Executive Mtg

7pm - 8pm PTO General Mtg

Tues Sep 9, 2014

9:00am - 10:00am Mrs. Shively's students' Community Outing

Data Team / IAT Process Overview Meetings for 5th, 4th and 2nd Grade Teams during your planning time.

Wed Sep 10, 2014

Data Team / IAT Process Overview Meetings for 1st and 3rd Grade Teams during your planning time.

Fri Sep 12, 2014

Mumkin Orders due

Mon Sep 15, 2014

International Dot Day!

Teachers help me out put the color shirt for your grade level in your newsletters next week. We can wear our new staff shirt. We will start calling grade levels at 9:15. 

Fifth will lead followed by fourth, third, second, and first and then Kindergarten.

Wed Sep 17, 2014

10:15am-11:30am District Building Visit

Fri Sep 19, 2014

Mumkin Order Money due

Wed Sep 24, 2014

3:35-4:20 ADE/DCR Staff Meeting at ADE

Thu Sep 25, 2014

Picture Day

Thu Oct 2, 2014

Mumkin Delivery

5:30pm - 6:30pm Market Day

Fri Oct 3, 2014

K-5 Interims Due

Newsletter Home

8am - 9am Building Advisory Committee Meeting

Mon Oct 6, 2014

Global Read Aloud begins! -- Click here for more information.

Tue Oct 7, 2014

8am - 9am Building Improvement Team mtg

Fri Oct 10. 2014

9:30-11:15am Kids’ EdCamp