During our September 24th Professional Development Day, the Blair Staff took some time to review the information we gathered last May about "What was going on for our learners?" and discussed what would Blair school with a Social Emotional focus: "Look Like, Sound Like, and Feel Like. We also started to FOCUS on our student and staff needs. We discussed FOCUSSING on developing some common language as a school and using mentor texts ie: Ishi- by Akiko Yabuki and We Are Welcome to start to discuss our feelings and how to care for ourselves, others and this place. Our next steps will be to scan the students with some questions focussed on Social Emotional Learning and what their thoughts and feelings are about what they need as learners.