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Quiet Expectations

Quiet Expectations
Dr. Edna Hussey

As I compose this first blog of the New Year 2025, the campus is peaceful and quiet. The facilities and maintenance crew has just left for their lunch break from cleaning classrooms and waxing the office and dining room floors.

I imagine our students returning from family trips and holiday adventures or getting ready for their return to campus. Our faculty and staff are doing the same and reviewing their instructional plans for the second semester. The first week of this two-week break is immersed in everything Christmas — shopping, home decorating, holiday meals with friends and family, gift-giving — while the second week feels more like the “vacation” with more focused time with family and for ourselves.

The return to campus signals continuing the good work of teaching and learning. The faculty will re-establish classroom communities and foster peer relationships in order for the best learning to thrive. Expect a review of concepts and routines over a few days then sailing forward into new learning that builds on prior learning. As a faculty, we’ll continue to work on the writing curriculum so that content such as particular genres and writing conventions are taught and practiced at appropriate grade levels. For example, dialogue and its formatting is best taught in third grade, or transition words to suggest time sequence, e.g. “next,” “then,” “first.” Regardless of grade level, the key concept is having a main idea and developing the idea.

By the time you read this blog on Monday, January 6 or later, the campus will be buzzing with student life — the rise and fall of loud and soft voices, the P.E. music as children exercise on the playcourt, running and chasing, and oh! the clatter in the dining room at lunch!

I look forward to seeing our children, faculty, and staff on campus. 2025 is a blank canvas, a stage with actors primed to take center stage, an arena with teams ready to play, an expectant campus ready to receive the learning community.

E Kūlia Kākou! Let’s strive and aspire together!

For our children,

Edna L. Hussey, Ed.D.
Principal

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