Activities
 
 
 
Recognition
SPirit    School Pride
Show someone how much you appreciate their support through a yummy treat!  Use this download as a template for making a specialty wrapper to be used on a jumbo Hershey candy bar.  It will only cost you a couple of dollars each and staff members really like it!
It is important to recognize the ultimate achievement by your seniors by announcing to the school what colleges and universities your seniors might be attending.  Pass out this simple form in the senior English classes to get the responses.  You might want to confirm with counseling about some of the acceptances or require the students to bring in copies of the acceptance letters.
Use a Hollywood star to help recognize an outstanding achievement at your next event.  You can also use this if you use a Hollywood theme at a dance and want to decorate the walk to the gym with some of your student stars.
Great way to recognize a number of teachers and staff members on your campus.  This hero ceremony allows all of the students to participate in nominating teachers.  Make sure you make the criteria available during the nominating the process.  This expands the traditional teacher of the year concept.
3 page of great ideas to think about as you are running your activities program.  Everything from how to work with administrators to recognition programs.  This collection of thoughts and ideas will keep you focused as you work throughout the year.
Central High School has an awards ceremony that can be easily duplicated at your school.  Their Panther Pride program recognizes at least six outstanding students every year and uses a broad range of criteria.  Remember that it is important to find ways to recognize as many students as possible for their outstanding achievements.
Most studies point to the fact that schools with strong recognition programs tend to have very strong traditions of school spirit.  These 5 pages are filled with easy ideas that you can start implementing right away.  You don’t have to wait until the start of next year.  If you’re not doing student of the month or recognition bulletin board start now!
Here are a bunch of ideas that students can develop to build better relations between students and staff.  The staff needs to be recognized more than once a year.  Try to find opportunities to recognize achievements by individuals and departments throughout the year.
4 pages of great ideas for teacher and staff recognition.  Remember to try to incorporate recognition moments at each assembly.  It can be part of a pep assembly or even at your next staff development meeting.
Grasslakes High School has some good ideas when it comes to recognizing the achievements of seniors and athletes.  Take a look at these ideas and see if any of them will work for you at your school!
From the great state of Washington here are several ideas that schools use to recognize the accomplishments of their students.  Some of the ideas will have to be modified for the middle or elementary school level, but the ideas are outstanding.
 
With the growing importance of testing as measures of school success it is important to help encourage students to perform at a very high level when taking the state mandated tests.  Use these ideas to get your students excited about doing the best they can.
This is a fun handout that you can give to your staff as part of Teacher Appreciation Week in order to remind them about all of the little things that make their job special.  These ABCs will make your teachers smile!
So many staff appreciation ideas we had to break it up into separate downloads.
 
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Here is a sample outline of how to organize a teacher appreciation week for your staff.  It is important that teachers and staff know that the recognition is coming so they can anticipate and fully appreciate all of the wonderful things you are going to do for them.  
Education World has a collection of great ideas for teacher and staff appreciation weeks.  Take a look here and then try going on to their site for the most up to date information.