Group Promotes Keeping Virginity Aemi Kato is a rebel at her high school. But not in the traditional sense: The 15-year-old has signed a pledge to avoid sex until she’s married. “I’m pretty much by myself on this at my school,” the New World School of the Arts student said with a shrug. “But sex… Read more »
June 15,1999 BATON ROUGE, Louisiana (AP) — Respect is about to become the law in Louisiana’s classrooms. The Legislature is on the verge of passing Gov. Mike Foster’s bill requiring students to address teachers and other school employees as “ma’am” or “sir” or use the appropriate title of Mr., Miss, Ms. or Mrs. It could… Read more »
BUILDING destiny is my purpose and mission SEEING in each child all that I can envision ELEVATING each student to a higher position PURSUING the future with the boldest of vision LEADING with empathy by heartfelt decisions MAKING a difference with driving persistence BUILDING DESTINY is my purpose and mission
Does your School Measure Up ? Take the WALK THE TALK Survey! Familiarize yourself with each of the ten WALK THE TALK characteristics and descriptions. Rank the characteristics in the order you feel they exist in your organization. Give 10 points to the characteristic exhibited more, 9 to the next, and so on, ending with… Read more »
Looking for Interesting Employment? Teacher’s Aid is a program which lets a teenager put into action the values which he or she has learned. Under co-development by the Bureau of Essential Ethics Education and the public charity Optimizing National Education, Teacher’s Aid is available for *private* viewing at www.opnated.org/programs Filling a niche in the menu… Read more »
Yesterday and Today “Manners are of more importance than laws.” -Edmund Burke, British statesman, 1700’s “Without good manners, human society becomes intolerable and impossible.” -George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, 1800’s “If manners were an animal, it would be an endangered species.” -Henry C. Rogers, American public relations expert, 1984 How things were different not too… Read more »
More than 250 Altus teachers, administrators, support personnel, and parents attended an afternoon presentation by Gene Bedley, Executive Director, of the National Character Education Center, Santa Margarita, California. The in-service program, hosted by Altus Public Schools and sponsored by APOE, dealt with character-centered classrooms. Bedley’s materials are currently being used in over 5500 schools nationwide…. Read more »
Author’s Note: The following activities have been created for intermediate students; however, you are encouraged to modify and adapt them to fit student age, experiences, current units of study, etc.! As educators and role models, we must continually make a concerted effort to model and demonstrate the values we teach on a daily basis. Activity… Read more »
Should you find it hard to get to sleep tonight; Just remember the homeless family who has no bed to lie in. Should you find yourself stuck in traffic; don’t despair. There are people in this world for whom driving is an unheard of privilege. Should you have a bad day at work; Think of… Read more »
What to Look For Many of us are wondering what we can do as parents, educators, and students to ensure school safety in the wake of the Columbine High School shooting. The first step is to know what questions to ask about safety at your school. Here is a school violence prevention checklist from the… Read more »
