Here's one we've been passing our to our PTA units this past month - by popular request.
Reaching Your Dream Takes Courage
Courage is admitting that you're afraid and facing that fear directly. It's being strong enough to ask for help and humble enough to accept it.
Courage is standing up for what you believe in without worrying about the opinions of others. It's following your own heart, living your own life, and settling for nothing less than the best for yourself.
Courage is daring to take a first step, a big leap, or a different path. It's attempting to do something that no one has done before and all others thought impossible.
Courage is keeping heart in the face of disappointment and looking at defeat not as an end but as a new beginning. It's believing that things will ultimately get better even as they get worse.
Courage is being responsible for your own actions and admitting your own mistakes without placing blame on others. It's relying not on others for your success, but on your own skills and efforts.
Courage is refusing to quit even when you're intimidated by impossibility. It's choosing a goal, sticking with it, and finding solutions to the problems.
Courage is thinking big, aiming high, and shooting far. It's taking a dream and doing anything, risking everything, and stopping at nothing to it make it a reality.
That's a great idea. We do something similar. We have a log of volunteers (and hours) they come to school. So we took the more familiar names, along with our Board members and someone created a Blue Star Pin out of hard felt. It has their name on it. So that was our way of recognizing our volunteers. Every month or so we do have a "star party" for parents who gave the most time. We would pick 3 or 4 and they would be recognized along with a few star students.
IN THE PARENT ROOM IN OUR SCHOOL,WE HAD ABOUT 12-14 PARENT VOLUNTEER JACKETS(THE LIGHT-WEIGHT JACKETS DOCTORS/NURSES WEAR AROUND THE HOSPITAL)
WITH THE WORDS (NAME).......SCHOOL PARENT VOLUNTEER,MONOGRAMMED ON THE FRONT.ON THE BACK MONOGRAMMED WERE THE WORDS " WE'RE HERE TO SERVE".
SO WHENEVER PARENTS CAME IN TO GIVE OF THEIR TIME.
THEY'D SLIP ON A JACKET ,"POLK OUT THEIR CHEST",AND PROCEEDED TO CARRY OUT THEIR TASK FOR THE TIME THEY WERE IN THE SCHOOL.
THEY THEN BECAME RECOGNIZED BY CHILDREN AND STAFF
AS PART OF THE SCHOOL TEAM. PRIOR TO USING THE
JACKETS,SOME PARENTS WERE JUST ANOTHER
VISITOR ROVING AROUND IN THE SCHOOL WITHOUT ANY REAL IDENTIFYING CONNECTIONA ,AS TO WHY THEY WERE THERE. W/ THE JACKET...EVERYONE KNEW AND IT MADE A DIFFERENCE.
WE ACTUALLY HAD PARENTS FROM TIME TO TIME,COME TO THE SCHOOL TO VOLUNTEER JUST TO WEAR THE JACKET
FOR AWHILE AND GET SOME RECOGNITION THEY MIGHT HAVE NEEDED TO BOOST THEIR SELF IMAGE.
THE JACKET BECAME A STATUS SYMBOL.
LET ME WARN YOU,IF YOU USE THE JACKETS,YOUR VOLUNTEER NUMBERS WILL INCREASE 3-FOLD OR MORE,
AND YOU'LL HAVE TO ORDER MORE AND MORE.
AND PLEASE DON'T FORGET TO ORDER A FEW XXLARGE AND AT LEAST ONE XXXLARGE.NEED I SAY WHY?
Hi Lisa, be sure to use the Words of Inspiration on our Council site as a resouce for some positive things your could print out and hang around that parent room.
