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Great story at KUOW about Highland Park and their "yoga breaths and mustang money."  Kudos to Principal Chris Cronas and his staff for their work.  

"Do you know what grit is?" Cronas asks the students. "It's when you work really, really hard on something and you never give up on it."

Next, the deep breathing. Cronas squeezes a rainbow-colored ball as he speaks quietly.

“Let’s all practice our breathing with the ball and my voice. Ready? Go. In. Hold … one, two, three, four, five, six.”

"This is not rocket science. This is Education 101. Kids need to feel safe. They need to feel respected," Cronas said. “They need to know that the people at their school love them and will give them the structure they need to succeed."

For the School Board meeting tonight, the public testimony list is nearly full.  Most of them, including me, will be speaking to the Seattle Preschool Program Service Agreement.  Others are speaking on discipline, recess, nutrition policy, lunch times, and deaf and hard of hearing. 

On the City Pre-K program, I am sensing a low-key campaign by staff for the program which seems to insinuate that it is expanding in SPS even before a vote has been taken.  There's this video at the district's website about the program.   There's nothing wrong with having a video but I would expect, from the district's side, that the video would be far more information and less hearts and flowers.  That's the kind of video I would expect to see from the City side but maybe the City produced this one.

The Executive Committee agenda for tomorrow's meeting is finally available.  The Executive Committee reviews the agendas for the next two upcoming Board meetings.

 The Board meeting on April 6th sees just a couple of Action items and no less than 26(!) Intro items, with 22 of them BEX or BTA project approvals.  One of the new Intro items is a board policy on Data Privacy which I'll have to learn more about as this is a long-term special interest to me.

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