Patience, Grace and Wisdom

This week this has been my mantra. I came back from our odd Winter Break, hoping that all the progress my students and I had made in the previous three weeks would be easily recalled. Boy was I wrong! I have a particularly raucous group of disrespectful boys (I can't yet bring myself to call them young men even though by age they should be). So far, every trick in my teaching bag has failed. Things sort of came to a head a couple days ago when following a discipline referral for one of ringleaders (one who is not welcome to return until we have a team meeting. Thank you Principal!), I realized that maybe I'm trying too hard. That's where the mantra comes in. Patience, Grace and Wisdom. I pray for it daily.