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This guide outlines effective strategies for recognizing and celebrating student achievements while maintaining staff morale. It includes ideas for contests, awards, press conferences, and monthly acknowledgments through organizations like CHSPA, JEA, NSPA, and CSPA. Discover innovative approaches such as staff nominations, induction ceremonies, and personalized certificates. Enhance the experience with bonding activities and recognition methods like birthday celebrations and positive outreach. Foster a supportive environment that balances fun and functionality, ensuring both students and staff feel valued.
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Student Recognition and Celebration (or, the way to maintain staff sanity)
Contests • Press Conferences offered through CHSPA • Random Contests offered through CHSPA • Annual Awards and Critiques (individual and staff) • JEA • NSPA • CSPA • CHSPA
Monthly Awards • Staff Nominations • Stories • Photos • Design • Secondary/Alternative Copy • Staff Member of the Month • Make Certificates!
Induction Ceremony/Banquet • For Quill and Scroll • End of Year celebration • End of Year awards (staff and adviser determined) • Invite administrators
Simple Recognition • Good Photos • Well-written stories • Completed pages • Emails, letters, cards from outside people • Scholarship recommendations • Recognition in school newsletters • Birthdays
Ways to bring in the fun • Work Nights = Staff Dinners • Secret Santa • Bonding • Anonymous cards • Uncovering editor positions • Distribution parties • Senior goodbye party
Originality • Come up with something that is unique to your staff and to you • This is a love/hate situation, and you have to find the balance. • Know what keeps your staff going.