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-- your interests or hobbies, and, most important of all, your vision for the children in the year ahead. "Be sure to add a P.S. that says 'Please remind your parents of these important dates,' and list events such as Back-to-School Night and the date class pictures will be taken...
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Listen. Be proactive, not reactive. If you make a decision, stick with it. When faced with an educational issue, make a decision only if it will improve the quality of education for the kids. If you're having a good day at work, what makes it good? I've helped a student deal with...
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Any principal could do the same. Create a bulletin board outside your office. Rotate the pictures on a monthly basis so the bulletin board always appears "new." And then create a scrapbook of the pictures to keep in your office for kids and visitors to see again and again. That's what...
Students might respond by drawingorwriting. Post some of the students' responses. Get the whole school involved and you'll have a yearlong bulletin board. As you replace the pictures and writing each month, put the ones you take down into a scrapbook that you can leave out to entertain ...