“Maintaining a positive school climate is important. You can’t get to the business of teaching and learning if students don’t feel sure that they are safe” according to Aileen Sterling, Principal of Cerro Villa Middle School. Such sentiments led her to ask Jennifer Van Horik a counselor at Cerro Villa to implement a character education… Read more »
DECIDE TO FORGIVE FOR RESENTMENT IS NEGATIVE RESENTMENT IS POISONOUS RESENTMENT DIMINISHES AND DEVOURS THE SELF. BE THE FIRST TO FORGIVE TO SMILE AND TAKE THE FIRST STEP AND YOU WILL SEE HAPPINESS BLOOM ON THE FACE OF YOUR HUMAN BROTHER OR SISTER. BE ALWAYS THE FIRST DO NOT WAIT FOR OTHERS TO FORGIVE. FOR… Read more »
There are all kinds of reminders that a teacher can create to assist children in remembering what they need to do in order to follow through on their jointly created plans and agreements. You might want to review the steps of making an agreement below. 1. It s critical to make and verbalize the agreement… Read more »
DO? Do not worry over things that may never happen, and even if they happen, worry will not help. Do count your blessings before you count cares. RE? Radiate good will and a spirit of benevolence. Like laughter, it is infectious and makes yourself, as well as others, feel better. ME? Mete kindness, understanding, tolerance,… Read more »
Principle — particularly moral principle — can never be a weathervane, spinning around this way and that with the shifting winds of expediency. Moral principle is a compass forever fixed and forever true. – Edward R. Lyman
In our increasingly complex world, as the value of personal integrity is less and less emphasized, oaths and ethical commitments aren’t what they used to be. Mac Arthur said he’d return. He did. Schwarzenegger said he’d be back. He was. Clinton said he’d be faithful to his wife. Things didn’t quite work out that way…. Read more »
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. – Walter Bagehot
1. Be grown up, which means, be independent, take responsibility for yourself. When you step out, take risks, and succeed some people may be envious or fearful that they’re “losing” the former you. This can cause them to be critical of your new aspirations and plans. They become “dream stealers.” When you are overly concerned… Read more »
I Corinthians 13:7 Love always protects, always trusts, always hopes, and always perseveres. Love always Protects- We need to strengthen others by keeping our discussion confidential. God places gossip along with infidelity and murder. To become trustworthy we need to refrain from sharing things that were given in confidence. Love always Trusts- We need to… Read more »
8th-grade project given high marks nationally. Maria Kopicki teaches her eighth-grade law class at Avondale Middle School. A sexual harassment policy written by students in Kopicki’s class four years ago is making a name for itself nationally. BY LORI HIGGINS- FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER Danielle Shapiro knew what to do when, as an eighth-grader three… Read more »
