As I have visited with other administrators at conferences and school visits I have discovered some great ideas that deserve to be passed along. Here is the first of what I hope will be many.
Positive Notes-I have heard of this one being done several ways. The basic premise is that you leave notes of encouragement for others. It could be in the form a post-it in the mailbox or on the desk. It could also be in the form of a traveling notebook. For the notebook version, you would pick a person and write something great or encouraging that you want the other person to know. This could be something you noticed about what they were doing in the classroom or in passing. Then you give the notebook to the person you wrote about and instruct them to pay it forward. Each person receiving the notebook will more than likely read all the other notes and hopefully be encouraged by the one about them and all the others.
I have tried to think of ways to accomplish the same task using tech tools. So far the closest I have come would be a derivation of some ideas I used during faculty meetings. I would post a question in a shared document and ask each faculty member to respond. Some weeks I would ask them to share something they are doing in their classroom, others it would be a request to share what they caught someone else doing good. To line it up with the idea behind the positive notes, you could create a document and write out the instructions at the top of the document. Then write about the first person you want to encourage, share with them once you have completed your encouraging note and have everyone setup notifications for each time the document gets added to so they can read the new notes.
If you have a better way to get the same thing done, feel free to share in the comments.
Positive Notes-I have heard of this one being done several ways. The basic premise is that you leave notes of encouragement for others. It could be in the form a post-it in the mailbox or on the desk. It could also be in the form of a traveling notebook. For the notebook version, you would pick a person and write something great or encouraging that you want the other person to know. This could be something you noticed about what they were doing in the classroom or in passing. Then you give the notebook to the person you wrote about and instruct them to pay it forward. Each person receiving the notebook will more than likely read all the other notes and hopefully be encouraged by the one about them and all the others.
I have tried to think of ways to accomplish the same task using tech tools. So far the closest I have come would be a derivation of some ideas I used during faculty meetings. I would post a question in a shared document and ask each faculty member to respond. Some weeks I would ask them to share something they are doing in their classroom, others it would be a request to share what they caught someone else doing good. To line it up with the idea behind the positive notes, you could create a document and write out the instructions at the top of the document. Then write about the first person you want to encourage, share with them once you have completed your encouraging note and have everyone setup notifications for each time the document gets added to so they can read the new notes.
If you have a better way to get the same thing done, feel free to share in the comments.
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