Teachers
You were stretching in class as your teacher asked a question. Your teacher then called on you to answer the question.
Potential Positive Intent: The teacher thought you wanted to answer the question.
Your friend really likes to make silly jokes and has recently been joking about Tacos a lot. You don't like this brand of humor and have told them to cool it around you. You walk into the classroom in the morning and hear your friend telling a joke about a taco again. You think, "how annoying!"
Possible positive intent: Your friend is still allowed to joke with people as other people and your friend may enjoy it. You were not in the room so your friend may have even been attempting to tell a joke while you were not there.
You are sharing a story at the dinner table and your sibling starts to cry. You have no idea why they are crying but it interrupts your story. You think - they always seem to interrupt me.
Possible positive intent: Your sibling didn't mean to interrupt your story. (The dog was begging and scratched their leg. OR Maybe they dropped their last bite of their favorite food. )
Your friend looks up from reading and glares at you. Then they look back down at their reading and they continue to look angry.
Possible negative intent: Your friend is angry at you and does not want to tell you so they are glaring at you instead.
Your dog uses the floor, right by the door to go outside, as its bathroom.
Possible positive intent: The dog was trying to make it outside but couldn't get there in time.
You are sitting with other students when one of them says something that is not very nice. The teacher near by does not intervene. You look at the teacher but they appear to just be eating their lunch.
Potential Positive Intent: The teacher did not hear the thing that was said. They are just trying to eat their lunch and be present for students.
You are playing with a ball with your friend. Your friend throws you the ball. It hits you right in the nose.
Possible positive intent: Your friend was trying to get the ball to you and was playing. It was supposed to be fun - not hurt you.
Your sibling runs into you in the hall and it hurts your arm. You think to yourself, "everything isn't a race. If they would just slow down they wouldn't hurt people."
Possible positive intent: A parent asked your sibling to hurry and get something. Your sibling was following directions.
Your sibling runs into you in the hall and it hurts your arm. You think to yourself, "everything isn't a race. If they would just slow down they wouldn't hurt people."
Negative intent: Your sibling saw you and sped up on purpose to run into you.
Your cat gets onto the table and knocks over your drink. The liquid begins to trickle onto you and the floor.
Possible positive intent: Your cat wanted to be close to you.
You get your math quiz back and it is covered in corrections and notes indicating where you missed important directions. You think to yourself, "I'm awful at math!" What was your teacher thinking?
Possible positive intent: Your teacher wanted you to see and understand what you missed so that it is easier for you next time and you do well on the test.
You are eating food that you really like. You know that your friend doesn't have the same taste as you. You hear them say, "ewwwwww, gross." You look up and they have a disgusted look on their face.
Possible positive intent: They noticed a problem with their own food and they were talking about that.
You want to go to a friends house and you are really excited about the idea. But, your parent/caregiver says no. You demand to know why. You are told that that discussion can happen later.
Possible positive intent: Your parent or caregiver already has plans for you that they believe you will enjoy. But, they have not been able to discuss that with you yet.
Your dog uses the floor, right by the door to go outside, as its bathroom.
You are in line at the store waiting to check out. You overhear a person in line commenting on how long the line is. The cashier appears to hear and you see them blush.
Possible positive intent: The person was commenting in hopes that another worker would open up a register and take some of the pressure off the current cashier.
Your teacher seems to have assigned a lot of homework for today. You feel frustrated because you are having a friend over after school and it will be difficult to complete everything. Your teacher even knew you were having a friend over today!
Possible positive intent: Your teacher wants to help you learn. They know that certain material needs practice to help you remember.
Your friend looks up from reading and glares at you. Then they look back down at their reading and they continue to look angry.
Possible positive intent: Your friend was reading something that was angering or frustrating to them and they were not aware of their own facial expression.
You are feeling really angry at your parent/caregiver. You yell at them and throw down some of the things you were carrying. Your parent/caregiver looks sad and frustrated at the same time. They walk away from you and go into their room and shuts the door.
Possible positive intent: Your parent needed to have some space to collect their own emotions and did not want to yell back or become angry with you. They best they could do in that moment was walk away for a few minutes.
You are playing with a ball with your friend. Your friend throws you the ball. It hits you right in the nose. Your friend runs over to check on you and says they are sorry.
Possible negative intent: Your friend did it on purpose to have revenge for something you did that they did not like.
You are in the car with your family. Suddenly, another driver pulls out in front of your car. The driver of your car slams on the breaks to avoid hitting the other car. The car that pulled out speeds away. You and your family feel scared.
Possible positive intent: The driver may be driving with someone in the car who has had a medical crisis. OR Maybe the other car did not see your car.
You call something boring. Other students are saying similar things. It isn't like you to say something like that. During a break your teacher pulls you aside to talk about the impact of what you said. You did not see them pull anyone else aside.
Potential Positive Intent: My teacher cares about me, my actions, and how I impact others. My teacher wants me to be my best self. I have no way of knowing when or if they will speak to someone else.
You see your friend as you enter the school building. You are happy to see them and you wave at them and say hey. They appear to look at you but keep walking in the direction of the bathroom without saying or doing anything to show that they care.
Possible positive intent: Your friend didn't feel good and they were focused on getting to the bathroom. Or your friend was lost in thought.
Your caregivers are at the end of the driveway and you hear them yelling. You can't see them well. One of them yells, "Stop!" The other one yells, "you have to be kidding me!"
Possible positive intent: They were alerting a car - maybe there was a car driving by your driveway that had a flat tire or something on the roof.
OR your parents see someone doing something that means someone could get hurt.
You were stretching in class as your teacher asked a question. Your teacher then called on you to answer the question.
Possible Negative intent: Your teacher knew you weren't raising your hand. They called on you to teach you not to stretch in their class again.
DAILY DOUBLE: Before the question is answered the team must wager!
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Possible Positive Intent: The book was owned at one time, by the individual who wrote in the book. The owner of the book donated it to the library when they were done. It can be common for students in challenging academic classes - who own a book - to take some notes in the book.