Wednesday, November 27, 2013

The Danielson Guide to a Highly Effective Thanksgiving


I am very grateful for all of you for making a difference in the lives of our children each day! Major thanks to all the teachers in WWP who shared this today, especially Allan Johnson and Mike Zapicchi. It definitely brought a smile to many faces today.

Happy Thanksgiving!



THE DANIELSON GUIDE TO A HIGHLY EFFECTIVE THANKSGIVING

Unsatisfactory: You don't know how to cook a turkey. You serve a chicken instead. 
Half your family doesn't show because they are unmotivated by your invitation, which was 
issued at the last minute via Facebook. The other half turn on the football game and fall
asleep. Your aunt tells your uncle where to stick the drumstick and a brawl erupts. 
Food is served on paper plates in front of the TV. You watch the game, and root for
the Redskins.

Needs Improvement: You set the alarm, but don't get up and the turkey is undercooked.
3 children are laughing while you say grace. 4 of your nephews refuse to watch the 
game with the rest of the family because you have failed to offer differentiated
game choices. Conversation during dinner is marked by family members mumbling under
their breath at your Aunt Rose, who confuses the Mayflower with the Titanic.
Only the drunk guests thank you on the way out. Your team loses the game.

Proficient: The turkey is heated to the right temperature. All the guests, whom you have 
invited by formal written correspondence, arrive on time with their assigned dish to pass.
Your nephew sneaks near the desert dish, but quickly walks away when you mention that it
is being saved until after dinner. You share a meal in which all family members speak 
respectfully in turn as they share their thoughts on the meaning of Thanksgiving. 
All foods served at the table can be traced historically to the time of the Pilgrims. 
You watch the game as a family, cheer in unison for your team. They win.

Distinguished: The turkey, which has been growing free range in your back yard, 
comes in your house and jumps in the oven. The guests, who wrote to ask you to please
be invited to your house, show early with foods to fit all dietary and cultural needs.
You watch the game on tape, but only as an video prompt for your family discussion 
of man's inhumanity to man. Your family plays six degrees of Sir Francis Bacon and is thus 
able to resolve, once and for all, the issue of whether Oswald acted alone.


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