New School: Week Two

James started off the week spending the day doing processing exercises with Staff about the field trip incidents the Friday previous. A while day of story boarding what happened, how he was feeling, how it made others feel, and plans for how things could go better next time.

Storyboard from Wikipedia and  The Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd 

Congratulations, he was told. After all your hard work, you've earned coming back to class - well done!

I want to say this has been a game changer.

Since then, James has dealt pretty well with ABA, trying to synch up with the school bus in the middle of our apartment parking lot being unavailable due to a noisy repaving project (which is where the bus is supposed to pick him up), and his teacher being out unexpectedly for much of the week. There have been behaviours, but they are smaller. A blowup about finding something unexpected in his frozen yogurt at home was brought under control by James himself within a very reasonable amount of time.

Field trips other that the group walks to the Farmers' Market are out for him for the summer, but he seems to be coping well with that. 

Yes, we are still talking about aides and principals who were involved with the most challenging school situations. But James also asked to visit some of his favourite counselors at the local Boys and Girls Club. We dropped by twice last week to say hello, and he was told he is welcome to come visit or some day returns over the summer. Yesterday he asked to visit the library for the first time in forever, and he asked about checking out a book (Matilda). This is a nice change!