Responsibility Management
Spring Texas Schools Focus on Responsibility Manag
Principal Martha Knudsen of Anderson Elementary school , Lee Christian
Principal of Ponderosa elementary school and Renee Coleman Principal of
Thompson Elementary are some of the more recent Texas schools to join the
Values in Action! Network . (currently over 3000 us schools in the US) Their
schools participated in an all day seminar on Responsibility Management.
Teachers learned to establish a Better Choice Programs, WBR Program, Self
Management skills, and develop Solution Centers for their classrooms. The
seminar included a focus on putting the pencils in kids hand to come up with
a plan on how to improve personal responsibility, evaluating daily responsibility
and developing plans to put into their under construction
folders. Michelle Cottle a teacher from Anderson School was cited for her
outstanding leadership in promoting ethics and ethical decision making with
her students.
Gene Bedley, seminar leader, commented on the outstanding and inspirational
leadership of each of the principals as well their assistant principals
provided for their respective schools. “As the National Educator of the Year
I have the great honor of traveling to several hundred schools. You have some
of the finest most dedicated staff I have met. To witness so many teachers to
be willing to give up their Saturdays to improve their students is noteworthy
and the exception.”
– illiam Pollack