This giveaway is now closed. This month, we’re giving away three books that help principals and administrators build and lead successful schools:
- The School Climate Solution: Creating a Culture of Excellence from the Classroom to the Staff Room
- The Hands-On Guide to School Improvement: Transform Culture, Empower Teachers, and Raise Student Achievement
- The Principal’s Survival Guide: Where Do I Start? How Do I Succeed? When Do I Sleep?
To Enter: Leave a comment below describing how you help your school community thrive. This giveaway is now closed.
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The winner will be contacted via email on or around January 22, 2018, and will need to respond within 72 hours to claim his or her prize or another winner will be chosen. This giveaway is in no way affiliated with, administered, or endorsed by Facebook, Twitter, or Pinterest. Winner must be a US resident, 18 years of age or older.
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I have as well learnt to give guidance and advice to the latter for the parents to gain knowledge required in working positively with their children for them to thrive in any environment.
The greatest tool that one can use is knowledge.My Principal is and always takes upon herself to give positive guidance and advice to our challenging clientele making them realize the need to partner with the school for the growth of the student holistically.
Our community is a close knit group that is always ready to support our district. Communication and opportunities to be involved in district activities has been our focus for the last 2 years.
I give time for staff to develop a self care plan and we visit it each month to make sure everyone is taking care of themselves.
The principle of the Banff Elementary School is an objective figure of reference for parents, students and staff. It is a big job and I hope I can support her with the books.
I work hard to maintain positive relationships with students and staff–I truly believe we are a community and the best success is found by supporting each other.
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By continuing to strive ro provide all students with a valuable and rewarding educational experience that prepares them to be successfulfor success!
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I help my school community thrive by teaching the students how they can solve their own problems in calm and productive ways.
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These resources would help our school climate so that we can connect more with staff, the community, and parents. By having a well developed action plan we will continue to grow our learners into being successful individuals.
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It takes a village, and it definitely takes a school system with their finger on the communities heartbeat to understand the needs of their children. The only way to do this is to be an active member, connecting with staff, parents, stakeholders and students.
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I help my school community by advocating and supporting the inclusion of kids with exceptionalities!
I would like to nominate Ms Karon Ramsey, the principal of Mary McLeod Bethune Early Childhood Center in Gary Indiana. She works all hours and 7 days per week to bring about positive change for the school, the district, the families and the children of one of the lowest income areas in the state.
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Providing professional development opportunities that bring staff together.
I provide leadership that fosters the development of cooperation, assertion, responsibility, empathy, and self-control among student and adult learners.
I help my community thrive by being present to students, families, stakeholders and all staff. I make it a point to greet students each morning and encourage and praise them when necessary and assist those who are in need. I form relationships with all families as we work together to educate all children.
I provide Professional Development opportunities for my, geared to the needs of specific students. Additionally, I work with teachers individually to help in ways they need.
At the middle school level, teachers often end up rather isolated within their grade level teams because of scheduling formats. At my school, we make an effort to plan events and activities that allow our staff and teachers to interact with people who do not share their schedule. It has helped build morale and encouraged more diverse discussions.
I help our school community thrive by encouraging each staff member to make connections with at least one other person throughout the day in our community for the sole purpose of sharing a positive story, thought, success, or kind act! It’s amazing how many things that our community is finding that happens in a positive way!
By creating young leaders who believe in themselves and by keeping all stakeholders informed, I help to foster the needs of our growing community. Together, we make a greater difference in the success of our students. You can, if you think you can!
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As Administration, impacting the community is crucial to our Center. We utilize various outlets throughout our city to connect our families to improve relationships.
We host family events at our center to encourage early learning importance from the classroom to the home. We occasionally take “polls” or questionnaires to also focus on meeting the needs of our familles.
Having the opportunity to win a give -a-way such as this will help us improve where we lack and grow stronger at building a better community family.
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I help our school community thrive by keeping connected with staff, parents, community members, attending community events and professional development opportunities and loving all of it.
I attend multiple workshops, whether fee and/or fee based, that keep me updated on how to deliver the information to my students in ways that are beneficial for all involved. I believe in increasing student accountability and flexibility to present their work in unique and creative methods which will transfer to real life situations.
I help our school community thrive by being a resource for issues dealing with special education students and for strategies for helping special students succeed in the general education environment.
I help my community thrive by keeping in contact with parents. I attend our sporting events and talk to parents there also. Our community is small and it’s easy to visit with parents when I am out and about. It’s important to keep parents notified about what’s happening with their children.
I help make connections between students, staff, and the community.
I help a school district that is struggling with particularly heavy addiction and trauma issues within the general population, coming into the school campuses as a community counselor to serve as a team member, meeting with K12 individual students and co-facilitating psycho-educational groups with school counselors. The school I’m entering for is hoping to make a significant and lasting shift in school culture and become trauma-sensitive throughout the district from bus drivers to superintendent. I’m excited to be part of this process with such passionate educators. An unexpected plus – the superintendent is a K12 classmate of mine!
This would be a useful set of books to have!
I help our school community thrive by keeping connected with staff, parents, community members, and stakeholders. We must all work together to ensure that our students become the best that they can be.