Fabulous Fridays in February

As a school administrator I understand the importance of keeping teacher morale up throughout the entire school year. Everyone, not just the teachers, within a school will experience peeks and valleys during the year. I am working with a great principal that is often heard saying "Happy Teachers equals Happy Kids!" and I have to agree. That is why I was delighted to see a blog post by Melinda Miller a few weeks back about something she has started doing at her school to help boost teacher motivation. The basic concept is a guess who contest each week that ends on each of the Fridays during the month of February.

After reading her post, I couldn't wait to do something similar at my school. I immediately contacted Melinda to share with her my excitement of doing something very similar. Now here is the cool part of the whole deal... not only did she give me a "hey good luck," she also emailed me with additional resources she had gathered over the course of creating her own monthly event! And that is what is so great about creating a wonderful Personal Learning Network; the more diverse and connected it is, the more likely your PLN is to grow you as a person. Way cool.

So now our event has started with the first weeks Guess Whose being our feet and already after the first day the teachers (and even the students) seem to really be getting into it. The teachers were going around cheerfully checking out each others feet and even sharing hints with each other. It is neat to see them be chipper on a Monday! Am I overly optimistic after just one day? You bet, but hey its all in good fun and can you tell which one of those is my feet? if you are interested in starting something similar at your school you can check out my "Fabulous Fridays in February" document I created with help from Melinda Miller and Joan Ayers. Anything that can be done to boost morale is worth trying and anything that can be learned from my PLN is definitely worth paying attention to. If you don't believe me, just ask my staff.