One of the highlights of every school day is tea time. This is, as one would assume, a time for all the staff and students to get some refreshment at about 10:30 in the morning. The students usually go down to the cafeteria to get some pakora, cookies, or muffins from the kitchen. The middle school teaching staff usually retires to the office to see what the snack of the day will be. There is a calendar on which everyone is assigned a day to bring snack. Last year, our friend Jared instituted a formal grading policy for tea snacks. It involved the award of gold or black stars depending on the quality of the snack. Some of the staff complained of the arbitrary assessment that their snacks received, so Jared created a rubric like any good teacher would.
When Jared left, he passed the torch to Dave who now has the great responsibility of evaluating daily snacks. With some friendly reminders, no one has forgotten their snack and several gold stars have already been awarded. We are hoping that the trend continues so that Dave isn't forced to start handing out black stars and earning ill will from his colleagues.
Dave and Beth
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