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Sarah and the Name Game: How Teachers Learn from Social Emotional Learning Too<\/strong><\/h4>\n

She sits on the big com\u00adfy chair, hands in her lap. Watch\u00ading me. She doesn\u2019t speak. Some\u00adtimes she looks at her hands for sev\u00ader\u00adal min\u00adutes at a time. She doesn\u2019t real\u00adly move. There\u2019s no vis\u00adi\u00adble emo\u00adtion. What is she think\u00ading? Does she know who I am, what I\u2019m talk\u00ading about, why her teacher brought her here? <\/span><\/p>\n

Her teacher said, \u201cShe\u2019s sweet. She has no idea what\u2019s going on.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s how I get them. I\u2019m the Media Spe\u00adcial\u00adist at a Title 1 Dual Lan\u00adguage K\u20118 school. I get 30 min\u00adutes a week with 20 to 25 stu\u00addents at a time, always with mul\u00adti\u00adple non-Eng\u00adlish speakers. <\/span><\/p>\n

Enter Sarah. <\/span><\/p>\n

She came from Afghanistan in Decem\u00adber. She\u2019s 9, so she was enrolled in the 4th grade. No one in our school speaks her lan\u00adguage. No one in her fam\u00adi\u00adly speaks or reads Eng\u00adlish, Span\u00adish, or Cre\u00adole (all lan\u00adguages spo\u00adken and writ\u00adten in our school). She doesn\u2019t speak Ara\u00adbic, Mam, Kan\u00adja\u00adbal or any of the oth\u00ader lan\u00adguages spo\u00adken by our stu\u00addents. Our school dis\u00adtrict has no speak\u00aders of her lan\u00adguage (one I\u2019ve nev\u00ader heard of before) who were able to help enroll her. That\u2019s all. We don\u2019t know if she went to school in Afghanistan. We don\u2019t know any\u00adthing about her. <\/span><\/p>\n

And so she sits on the big, com\u00adfy chair each week. My heart breaks try\u00ading to find the sto\u00adry or the book or <\/span>some\u00adthing<\/b> that will get any kind of reac\u00adtion from her \u2013 a smile, a frown, a word, any\u00adthing. Her teacher says she fol\u00adlows the oth\u00ader stu\u00addents and does what\u00adev\u00ader she can fig\u00adure out to fol\u00adlow. She\u2019s a \u201cgood girl.\u201d Or is she? I mean, how would we know? She hasn\u2019t mis\u00adbe\u00adhaved, but we real\u00adly don\u2019t know what\u2019s going on in her mind or heart. The only thing I know for sure is that she doesn\u2019t do any\u00adthing to bring atten\u00adtion to herself. <\/span><\/p>\n

I know this because I for\u00adgot about her. Not real\u00adly, but really. <\/span><\/p>\n

At the 25-minute mark in my thir\u00adty-five 30-minute class\u00ades each week, I pull the class into a <\/span>cir\u00adcle to play. Every\u00adone knows this. <\/span><\/p>\n

In fact, some kids walk into the Media Cen\u00adter ask\u00ading, \u201cMs. Poskanz\u00ader, can we play a game today?\u201d To which I always reply, \u201cWe always play a game. First you return the books, we have a cou\u00adple of min\u00adutes to chat, then I read to you. After that, you choose your new books, then <\/span>we play. That\u2019s what we do here, right?\u201d And they all agree. That\u2019s what we do in the Media Center. <\/span><\/p>\n

Except for Sarah. <\/b>Sarah doesn\u2019t play. Sarah sits on the big, com\u00adfy chair with her hands in her lap wait\u00ading for her teacher to return to take her back to class. When I start the games, I for\u00adget to invite her to the cir\u00adcle. There\u2019s so much pan\u00adde\u00admo\u00adni\u00adum in the class I for\u00adget. When I look up and notice and see her there I motion for her to join us. She doesn\u2019t. There\u2019s anoth\u00ader girl in that class who doesn\u2019t like to play, she prefers to read her book. I let them sit. I\u2019m not proud of how I am for Sarah. I don\u2019t know what to do. I hate that. <\/span><\/p>\n

I showed Sarah how to check out books. Each week she\u2019d go to the sec\u00adtion of the library to search for an <\/span>I Can Read <\/span>book. Then she\u2019d return to the big, com\u00adfy chair, place the book on her lap, and wait for her teacher to return to pick them up.<\/span><\/p>\n

I told myself that Sarah didn\u2019t want to play \u2014 she\u2019d join if she want\u00aded to. But real\u00adly, I didn\u2019t know what she want\u00aded. Being at a loss with her each week start\u00aded to make me feel a cer\u00adtain way. <\/span><\/p>\n

I was feel\u00ading bad about myself as a teacher. I noticed I was sort of ignor\u00ading her to avoid the fact that I just didn\u2019t know what to do to get her to engage. Admit\u00adted\u00adly, 30 min\u00adutes a week with a class full of oth\u00ader needy stu\u00addents made it eas\u00adi\u00ader to focus on their impor\u00adtant things and ignore Sarah. So I did. I real\u00adly didn\u2019t think about her. I didn\u2019t plan for her. I didn\u2019t know what to do, so I did noth\u00ading to change my practice.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ignor\u00ading her for the 30 min\u00adutes a week I had her in my class was easy to accom\u00adplish and hard to live with. I\u2019m a kinder\u00adgarten teacher at heart. As a class\u00adroom teacher, I had the priv\u00adi\u00adlege of time to build rela\u00adtion\u00adships. I work myself into a fren\u00adzy try\u00ading to devel\u00adop those kinds of rela\u00adtion\u00adships in 30 min\u00adutes a week. It\u2019s not pos\u00adsi\u00adble. I know it\u2019s not possible. <\/span><\/p>\n

Sarah is impor\u00adtant. I know she is. I want to do more for her. In a class full of oth\u00ader needy kids, the need\u00adi\u00adest of all some\u00adtimes gets ignored because there is so much more that can be accom\u00adplished with\u00adout includ\u00ading her. <\/span><\/p>\n

I usu\u00adal\u00adly choose one game that I\u2019m going to play all week with all of my class\u00ades. It\u2019s less for me to think about in my busy sched\u00adule. Sarah\u2019s class was my first class on Mon\u00adday morn\u00ading. A few months after she arrived, I start\u00aded play\u00ading Name Game. I usu\u00adal\u00adly play this game ear\u00adly in the year, but I was remind\u00aded of it over the week\u00adend, and so that\u2019s what I chose to play one week in April. <\/span><\/p>\n

Also that day, com\u00adplete\u00adly unplanned by me, I called the cir\u00adcle togeth\u00ader near where Sarah was sit\u00adting, encour\u00adag\u00ading her with my prox\u00adim\u00adi\u00adty to join the game. She did! <\/span><\/p>\n

She stood to my right. I didn\u2019t think about it much, except that I would have to start the game play\u00ading to my left so Sarah could go last and so the per\u00adson on my left would under\u00adstand the direc\u00adtions and fol\u00adlow along.<\/span><\/p>\n

Me: Okay, today we\u2019re going to play a game called The Name Game. In a minute I\u2019m going to say my name and do one move that\u2019s very Ms. Poskanzer\u2011y. Then all of you are going to say my name and make my move just like I do.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then I flap my hands out-and-up with bent elbows, while step\u00adping out with my left foot \u2014 led by my ener\u00adgetic hip \u2014 and say, \u201cMS. POSKANZER!\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

And 16 fourth graders all flap their hands out-and-up with bent elbows, while step\u00adping out with their left foot \u2014 led by their ener\u00adgetic hips and call out, \u201cMS. POSKANZER!\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Me: Exact\u00adly! You\u2019re awe\u00adsome. Now, in a minute. I\u2019m going to do that again, and you\u2019re going to copy me. Then\u2026THEN! Stephen\u00adson (to my left) is going to say his name and make one very Stephenson\u2011y move. And we\u2019re all going to copy him. And then Win\u00adnie. And you get it\u2026all the way around. Ready?<\/span><\/p>\n

They were. I went and they went.<\/span><\/p>\n

Stephen\u00adson dabbed. Ihaan did a thumbs up thing. Win\u00adnie shook her head, rolled her eyes, and smiled. Dewey did a I\u2011don\u2019t\u2011know sort of thing with his hands. <\/span><\/p>\n

My favorite part of this game is when a kid who isn\u2019t real\u00adly a talk\u00ader or isn\u2019t real\u00adly into the game has their turn. They\u2019ll stand there with their hands crunched togeth\u00ader look\u00ading at their shoes and they\u2019ll say their name, \u201c<\/span>Yoselin.<\/span>\u201d Then the whole class will crunch their hands togeth\u00ader, look at their shoes and say, \u201c<\/span>Yoselin.<\/span>\u201d <\/span>Because the Yoselin\u2011y move isn\u2019t big and loud. That\u2019s not who Yoselin is. And the whole class knows Yoselin, and sees her move and hon\u00adors it.<\/b> Best part of the game. <\/span><\/p>\n

I digress to make the point that if I thought at all about what Sarah would do, I thought she\u2019d be very Yoselin\u2011y. I wasn\u2019t real\u00adly pay\u00ading atten\u00adtion to Sarah. I sort of knew she got up in the cir\u00adcle, but I didn\u2019t real\u00adly think about her as a play\u00ader. She was behind my periph\u00ader\u00adal vision for the first half of the cir\u00adcle, so I didn\u2019t have her on my radar. I didn\u2019t know what would hap\u00adpen because I didn\u2019t know what would hap\u00adpen. That\u2019s sort of how that works.<\/span><\/p>\n

I wasn\u2019t think\u00ading about her until the kid right before her went. I think it was Daphne. I\u2019m not sure, but I am sure that Sarah said the name and did the move, and I was sur\u00adprised to see her smil\u00ading. I\u2019d nev\u00ader seen her smile before. It was awe\u00adsome. She has a glow\u00ading smile.<\/span><\/p>\n

In that awe\u00adsome moment, I was get\u00adting ready to stop and do my KKIT coach\u00ading<\/a>, \u201cSo fun! Every\u00adone knows who every\u00adone is, so we all know how to fol\u00adlow them the same way. Next <\/span>time, instead of fol\u00adlow\u00ading, let\u2019s try to remem\u00adber the move and say the name all togeth\u00ader.\u201d That\u2019s what I was get\u00adting ready to say. My mouth was open\u00ading\u2026<\/span>\u201c<\/span>Sarah!\u201d <\/b>and she spun around on one foot and land\u00aded with a clap, glow\u00ading smile and all. <\/span>I almost cried. <\/b>Typ\u00ading it now, I get shivers. <\/span><\/p>\n

She learned the game even though she had no idea what the words I said were. The sub\u00adtle rule of mak\u00ading the move to match the per\u00adson wasn\u2019t lost on her. Ihaan is total\u00adly a laid back, thumbs up sort of a kid. Win\u00adnie is per\u00adpet\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly rolling her eyes. I flap my hands out and push out my hip ener\u00adget\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly.  And Sarah has the soul of a Rockette! <\/span><\/p>\n

I am no Hall\u00admark movie, so no, Sarah still doesn\u2019t speak or read Eng\u00adlish (or any oth\u00ader lan\u00adguage while she\u2019s in my class). How\u00adev\u00ader, that was the day I saw her for the first time. <\/span><\/p>\n

The weeks after that day were test\u00ading and book fair and a lot of not-typ\u00adi\u00adcal Media Cen\u00adter\u00ading. I still got the game in at the end. Some\u00adtimes she\u2019d play, some\u00adtimes she\u2019d sit with her book. Not much changed on the sur\u00adface, but I felt dif\u00adfer\u00adent.<\/span> I hope Sarah did too. <\/b><\/p>\n

I always plan the games I play with intent. Sarah\u2019s sto\u00adry reminds me that they work even for those stu\u00addents I don\u2019t see right away. Sarah had to learn so much about so many dif\u00adfer\u00adent things before she could join the cir\u00adcle and share her Rock\u00adette self with us. <\/span><\/p>\n

Sarah\u2019s emer\u00adgence as her own true self in the Media Cen\u00adter has helped me remem\u00adber that build\u00ading the chal\u00adleng\u00ading bridge is going to take a long time. A lot of the bridge is built by the stu\u00addents in their own way. Chal\u00adleng\u00ading bridges, well-built, will cul\u00adti\u00advate a strong con\u00adnec\u00adtion, which is the ulti\u00admate instruc\u00adtion\u00adal technique. <\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve done all of this think\u00ading about Sarah since the day she showed me who she real\u00adly is. <\/span><\/p>\n

I think about all of this now in the relax\u00adation of sum\u00admer when I can reflect on my prac\u00adtice and the growth of my students. <\/span><\/p>\n

In the hus\u00adtle and bus\u00adtle of thir\u00adty-five 30 minute class\u00ades, Book Fair, Morn\u00ading Announce\u00adments, Col\u00adlec\u00adtion Man\u00adage\u00adment, the Copy Cen\u00adter, etc., I must remem\u00adber that those 3\u2011minute games once a week, every week, are impor\u00adtant, too. <\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s not just a brain break and off you go.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Play. Fun. Joy. It\u2019s Seri\u00adous Business. <\/span><\/p>\n

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P.S. The last week of School is May 23 \u2014 26. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>My\u201d ship\u00adment of books FINAL\u00adLY arrived and the plan was to have a \u201cBook Tast\u00ading\u201d with each class. 30 min\u00adutes of unfet\u00adtered enjoy\u00adment of BRAND NEW BOOKS! with a game at the end, and a final hug for the school year. <\/span><\/p>\n

On the Mon\u00adday of the last week of school, Sarah\u2019s class\u00adroom A\/C was out. I live in South Flori\u00adda. We don\u2019t do \u201cNo A\/C\u201d here in South Flori\u00adda. \u201cNo A\/C\u201d is akin to the feel\u00ading of \u201cNo Caf\u00adfeine.\u201d Only sti\u00adfling\u00adly hot in a bad, sticky way. Feel me?<\/span><\/p>\n

Sarah\u2019s teacher is my friend, so I offered to let her class come back to the very cold Media Cen\u00adter. They had end of the year stuff to do first, so we agreed they\u2019d come back dur\u00ading the kinder\u00adgarten block.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dur\u00ading my kinder\u00adgarten class that Mon\u00adday, the 4th graders each sat and wait\u00aded for a kinder\u00adgart\u00adner to bring them a BRAND NEW BOOK to read togeth\u00ader. (Vis\u00adit our Member\u2019s Only Area for pho\u00adtos of these sweet moments!). <\/span><\/p>\n

On Mon\u00adday, May 23, I learned that Stephen\u00adson has the soul of a sto\u00adry\u00adteller and patience of a teacher. He kept the atten\u00adtion of two of the most dis\u00adtractible kinder\u00adgart\u00adners I\u2019d ever seen. All around the room, 4th graders and kinder\u00adgart\u00adners were read\u00ading togeth\u00ader. Sarah\u2019s kinder\u00adgart\u00adner was read\u00ading to her, point\u00ading to the pic\u00adtures and telling the sto\u00adry as she knew it. <\/span><\/p>\n

Sarah\u2019s teacher and I steered spe\u00adcif\u00adic books to them. When Sarah read, <\/span>\u201cDUDE!\u201d (writ\u00adten by Aaron Reynolds; illus\u00adtrat\u00aded by Dan San\u00adtat<\/span><\/a>), there was pure joy. It\u2019s a (most\u00adly) one word book. Dude. She read the book with feel\u00ading (thank you, Dan San\u00adtat and the artis\u00adtic team at MacMillan). <\/span><\/p>\n

Thank\u00adful\u00adly, the A\/C was fixed short\u00adly after that. <\/span><\/p>\n

Play. Fun. Joy. It\u2019s Seri\u00adous Business. <\/span><\/p>\n


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