The topic of morning meetings came up, and this is where we came to the 'T' in the road and had to decide right or left. The issue is complex:
- students are divided into 4 groups for specialists and lunch because that the is our building's rotation schedule and to have a point person for parent phone calls
- we are using these same 4 groups in our space for Monday-Thursday morning meetings (Friday is the whole lot of us); we are calling these our base groups
- there are 5 teachers who will use the space full-time: 4 "classroom" teachers and 1 EL teacher. All 5 teachers want to be viewed as the teachers equally and share the responsibilities equally.
- 2 classroom teachers (one of them is me) want to lead our base groups for the first few weeks of school to establish a safe and comfortable feeling for students. After those first weeks, the 5 of us will rotate amongst all 4 base groups.
- The other 3 teachers want to rotate through morning meetings right away.
It's a conflict between what we know and trust as a teacher from the years of doing things the traditional way between completely changing things to fit in with our new vision and 21st century learning.

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