Just a quick heads up on 2 important things that I am helping with this week:
"Got Courage?" After the students go home for the day on Monday, I will be posting my 10 "Got Courage?" Anti-Bullying campaign posters around the school building. You can see "rough" versions of the posters and earlier blog here: "Got Courage?" posters blog post Only one of these posters uses the word "bullying", but they all speak to students and how important they are in stopping hurtful words, messages, and actions for being communicated. Students are on the front lines and need to be there for each other, not against each other. To go along with the posters and the launch of this campaign, all students will get a candy Lifesaver at lunch today and each Lifesaver will have a "bullying" fact or statistic stapled to it. The meaning of the candy is to remind the students that every student can be a life saver by helping someone who needs help....right here in our building. Announcements about these ideas will be in the daily announcements this week as well. Hopefully, with just 20 days left in the school year, this week can be a starting point to get students talking and observing how we all treat each other. We have great kids here at Carlisle and our "bullying survey data" on the Iowa Youth Survey shows that we are better than the average Iowa middle school. But, I am hoping we can get even better and become leaders in the fight to stop bullying.
Stars for Tomorrow applications: This is the $100 Savings Bond scholarship for incoming Carlisle 9th graders (that means this year's 8th graders) and it is due this week by Friday. Students can either give their completed applications to me or mail the materials in on their own. But the key is to do this by Friday! Good luck to all of the 8th graders who apply!
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