Motivating, encouraging, and celebrating life
Appreciating, celebrating, and boosting staff morale has always been a passion for me. I’ve had so much fun putting together the files for School Appreciation Days (see below). Your maintenance workers, paraprofessionals, school nurse, and many more are included. In each download you find innumerable ways to appreciate, personalize, and give gifts to show school personnel how much they are loved in an inexpensive way!
Meet Luz, one of my more-than-fantastic custodians when I was an elementary principal. She was the first person on campus most mornings and quickly circled that whole school making sure all the inside doors were unlocked. And by the way, she was not the only wonderful custodian on campus. I was very thankful for my staff! I was especially grateful for Luz though one summer
Art Linkletter was a radio and television host in the 1950s through the 1970s. One of his lasting legacies was the entertaining interviews with children that would appear on a 15-minute segment of his program entitled Kids Say the Darndest Things. (Not the “dandiest”.) When I first became a teacher, I bought a journal to write down the cute and funny sayings that would come
A word spoken in due season, how good it is! Prov. 15:23 I don’t personally know of anyone that doesn’t appreciate an encouraging word, but when it comes at exactly the right time for them…what a wonderful thing indeed! How do you know when to speak words into someone’s life? I call it an unction or a nudging in your gut. It’s when you are thinking of
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This post may contain affiliate links. Please read our disclosure policy for details here. During my elementary school principal years, I had a master kindergarten teacher that was amazing. She was quiet, sweet, and totally adored by her co-workers, parents, and students. She also made teaching look oh so easy! I made the mistake one time of bragging about her in a staff meeting. She was sitting
This post may contain affiliate links. Please read our disclosure policy for more details here. Photo by Zachary Nelson on Unsplash I was one of those principals who loved learning about temperament or character types. If you’ve been in the educational profession for any length of time you’ve taken them. Most tests have four different types (although the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® MBTI test® has 16). Perhaps you know
Years ago I heard about a leader that would greet her staff with “Happy National ______ Day!” and hand them a piece of gum, sticker, or a small token to go along with the holiday. I could imagine walking into her building with an expectation of celebrating something fun no matter how small…or how momentary. Different and fun…my two reasons for the creation of the
Do you celebrate your staff’s accomplishments? A few years ago, my husband and I traveled to a neighboring state to watch our grandson play baseball in a tournament. I believe he was 8 or 9 years old at the time. After winning a game, the coach sat them down (with all the parents and grandparents around) and proceeded to tell them everything they needed to
During my elementary school teaching years, I worked with students that came from great families and unfortunately some that did not. I had students that heard more negative than positive comments in their lives…and much worse. At times, my elementary age students would get grumpy and say something ugly (a Texas word for bad) to a classmate. I would tell them something along the lines
This post may contain affiliate links. Please read our disclosure policy for details here. 2020 is a year most people will not forget…but many would like to. History will proclaim it as the year the pandemic hit. A run on toilet paper, masks (of many types), virtual school, six-feet apart social distancing, and stay-at-home orders was just the tip of the iceberg. My husband Gene
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