Time for celebrations
Lunch hour is also an opportune time to fit in bonding experiences and celebrations that build relationships between faculty and students and within student groups. Likewise, special assemblies that fit in alternative-day schedules offer time during the school day when the entire school community can celebrate:
- Improving attendance
- Achieving 95 percent participation during CST testing
- Making API
- Meeting a goal for number of books read or number of service hours performed
- Honoring teams that have received recognition
- Recognizing acts of kindness to others
In the Spotlight
John Glenn Middle School of International Studies, Desert Sands Unified School District, a 2004 Schools to Watch™-Taking Center Stage model school
The school community holds what it calls “Renaissance Academic Rallies” to reinforce and recognize the school’s academic culture. The rallies help to transmit a culture of learning, where each year one-third of the population is new. The rallies have proven to be a way to create a “buy-in” to the school culture.
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