February teacher morale boosters

What’s that? Am I writing something in ADVANCE?? Or is it that I couldn’t sleep and decided that the 4am hour just might could be a productive one? :) I’ll never tell! There is a …

I've been especially focused this school year on finding ways to boost teacher / staff morale in my building. The last few years have been incredibly stressful, to say the least, and with so many new teachers coming into my building I knew it would be important to try to build a positive, supportive work environment with my colleagues if I was going to avoid being completely miserable this year. I have taken on a few different projects to that end already this year, but the one that has…

Valentine's Day is a fun time to do staff morale booster. It has been a while since winter break and spring break is too far away. This can be organized by the principal or sunshine - social committee. One of my principals did this at my school and it was a hit! Cut valentine's (the type that students exchange) into two parts. Put one part into every staff member's mailbox on Valentine's Day or the last work day before Valentine's Day. The object of this activity is for staff members to find…

Use these September staff morale resources to keep school employees motivated and add some fun to your staff meetings during back to school time!

We’re all feeling the blahness here in Texas…multiple weeks of cold weather…we just can’t handle it! Spring break is HOW many weeks away?? HOW many assessments do we have c…

February, despite its dreary reputation, has become one of my favorite months because of the awesome Melinda Miller. She introduced me to a way to cheer up what she affectionately calls, “the…

Root Beer floats just to let them know how much I appreciate them.

This is a great Valentine's idea for the office.

For 13 years now, I have Heart Attacked my husband every February 14th. I have heart attacked his car, I have heart attacked his classroom (that was too much work) and I have heart attacked his classroom door (he’s a teacher). But I never thought of doing this to friends, neighbors, teachers until this year. Spreading good cheer this time […]