By Lisa Greeves, Promising Practices Manager
CEP wishes you a great start to the 2012-2013 academic year. September is a great month to promote building relationships – between and among students themselves, between students and staff members, and between students and the community around them. The 2012 Promising Practices offer several great ideas for how to help students build these strong relationships: What better way to kick off the new school year than to encourage positive relationships between students and bus drivers? Pond Elementary School in Wildwood, Missouri created Our Magic School Bus Drivers, which consists of an interactive bulletin board featuring biographies and photos of all bus drivers so that students could get to know and respect them more.
Pond Elementary School in Wildwood, Missouri created Our Magic School Bus Drivers, which consists of an interactive bulletin board featuring biographies and photos of all bus drivers so that students could get to know and respect them more.
Woerther Elementary School in Ballwin, Missouri created Bus Driver Appreciation: Connecting Home and School as an opportunity to engage bus drivers as partners in the school community. Both practices experienced great success with building relationships and respect between students and their bus drivers and are easy to emulate in your own school.
Looking to improve student’s relationships with each other in a casual way? Randolph High School in Randolph, New Jersey uses their practice Making Homeroom Count to transform homeroom time from a period focused only on administrative tasks to a time where students can form bona-fide relationships with one another. Maybe you are interested in a quick-and-easy way to integrate meaningful adult interaction into your students’ daily lives.
Pierce Elementary School in Birmingham, Michigan created HUG (Hello, Update, Goodbye) where students form relationships with designated, caring adults within the school and check-in with them once a week.
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