Idea!

So it's still Day 3 of my Happiness project.
I am tired after a happy dancercise and a simple breakfast meal of eggs and pancake. Dance and food- both make me happy. Dance gives me a high - I feel all lit up inside!
As I revel in the rush of adrenaline after my dance, I get an idea! A super idea for my school. I think of the Year 3 Unit of Inquiry on conflicts and I think how weird is our unit. We come from the basic premise that conflicts are definitely going to be a part of our world and we need to teach children how to resolve them! Why do we not teach them from a positive platform to start with? I feel like rushing back to school and changing my Programme of Inquiry rightaway! And I get excited.
Then I think of the teachers who would run the inquiry and my enthusiasm wavers...will they buy in? Over a mountain of paperwork, admin stuff, behaviour management, parent management/helicopter parents and teaching.. will they have the right disposition to lead the inquiry?
And then I get another idea. What if I lead the process next term by buying 100 notebooks and getting any staff that buys in to map 100 day of happiness for themselves? Every day they will need to record one thing that makes them happy. There should be a caveat- that they can record only happy things. And then I start thinking of what we could do with it.
Perhaps we could have a simple mapping process as well. Data collection! Yes! That is what we should do. We could even map the morale of the school. But how do we do that? Perhaps I should map the number of times I have teachers in my office with a complaint/cry/problem on a daily basis and I could track it over a period of time.
My next thought- why should we not invite parents as well.
And children of Year 5 and Year 6.
A simple project with big possibilities!
I think of someone who can share my happiness over the idea, someone who will not laugh or be skeptical and I think of my friend. I message her immediately if we could meet tomorrow. She is super happy at the idea but we have decided to keep it a surprise till we meet! She is my Pig of Happiness! :)
I am super excited! Super happy! Many possibilities to spread happiness. Fingers crossed.