The Source School

Greetings from Ms Blair in Fort Kent! We’ve been working with the Valley Unified district since last winter doing strategic community listening through Maine ED 2050 and then using that learning to create strategic education priorities to advance student, educator, and community goals. A bonus was getting to support classroom teachers in different schools reconnect to their feeling of purpose as educators and strengthen relationships with their students. Creating daily rituals to affirm and care for ourselves, refusing to succumb to constantly feeling hectic, and taking the extra second to look a student in the eye and show true care go a long way toward classrooms where students and teachers feel they matter and are happy and ready to learn. Nothing better than seeing educators sparked with enthusiasm and ready to inspire their students to find their own purpose in life. 🌟

Hello from Ms Blair at Fort Kent Elementary! We have been working with Valley Unified since last winter, first doing strategic listening with the full Fort Kent community through lots of small recorded focus groups and then creating a framework of strategic education priorities to advance community priorities. A bonus this year was getting to support classroom educators to reconnect to their own calling and purpose and to strengthen relationships with their students. Featured here is second grade teacher Ms Blair!
Creating daily rituals to affirm ourselves and our purpose and refusing to succumb to feeling hectic all day go miles toward a classroom where teacher and students alike feel grounded and happy and ready to learn. 🌟