#NMSTigerPride!
As I walked around the building during the first four days, getting into classes, I was so impressed with the work our faculty and staff was doing to build relationships with our students.
I saw teachers doing exercises for relationship building, forming a culture of together and learning, and then after that, starting to get into the academics. All of these are important, and each holds its own individual importance, but research will say that a foundation of trust and a relationship is what the rest gets built upon. For me, it was so much fun seeing faculty and staff do all of these activities in the first three days. In every article I sent to teachers in the weeks prior to the school year starting, they all said that kids will learn and put forth the effort when they trust their teachers and have an established relationship with them. This is exactly what I saw in these first few days.
On the first day of school, Ms. Rae, Mr. Thomas, and I held a sign and took selfies with the students stating that "We're so happy you're here." In a simple way, we wanted all students to see that they are wanted here at NMS.
On the third day, Thursday, we held another sign explaining to all students, "You are special." Again, this was what many of our students saw as they were dropped off for school or got off the bus. We want our students to feel special and know we care about them, and a little sign (inspired by my friend and colleague at Case High School, Principal Brian McCann) can do this for our students.
On Friday, September 9, it was the first day we had all of our students wearing their Class T-Shirts and our faculty and staff wearing their Staff Shirts.
It was an awesome display of school pride and unity. In 6th Grade classes you would see a sea of gray; in 7th an ocean of orange; in 8th grade, a bouquet of black; and all along side, a staff shimmering in orange and black with spirit.
We are going to make this tradition happen for our signs on Thursdays and on the first Friday of each month, we will wear our T-shirts. Our next #NMSTigerPride Day will be Friday, October 7.
Love the NMS Spirit!
Here are many of the snapshots of the week.
It was an awesome display of school pride and unity. In 6th Grade classes you would see a sea of gray; in 7th an ocean of orange; in 8th grade, a bouquet of black; and all along side, a staff shimmering in orange and black with spirit.
We are going to make this tradition happen for our signs on Thursdays and on the first Friday of each month, we will wear our T-shirts. Our next #NMSTigerPride Day will be Friday, October 7.
Love the NMS Spirit!
Here are many of the snapshots of the week.
Here is also a Storify of the Tweets from the First Few Days of the New School Year:
