- Set up a school bulletin
board in your home to post school calendars and notices.
- Encourage your child to
participate in activities that boost school spirit.
- Encourage school pride
by buying T-Shirts, sweatshirts, caps, or other clothing
with the school's name or logo.
- Call the school and see
if you can subscribe to the school newspaper through
the mail.
- Write thank-you notes,
leave voicemail messages or send e-mail notes to teachers
and administrators when you're pleased about something
at your child's school.
- Join the PTO, volunteer
at school.
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- Provide many opportunities
for students to celebrate and boost school spirit.
- Produce T-Shirts, sweatshirts,
caps, jackets, buttons, and other items so students can
wear visible signs of their school affiliation.
- Provide many opportunities
for parents (and other adults) to volunteer at school.
- Make sports, arts, drama,
band, choir, and other school programs inclusive so all
kids can participate.
- Invite alumni to write
articles for the school newspaper, yearbook, or website
about what the school has done for them.
- Don't limit school spirit
to one type of activity (typically sports).
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- Support school fund-raising efforts, read-athons, and
teams.
- Attend school performances, plays and concerts.
- Recognize entire schools or classrooms.
- Highlight school accomplishments in the local media,
at civic gatherings, and anywhere else you can think
of.
- Have students share their school experiences with community
leaders and groups.
- Never allow the schools to suffer because of a lack
of financial resources.
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- Go as a group to events
at each other's schools.
- Give young people opportunities
to talk about their school experiences.
- Encourage adult members
to attend school activities involving youth from your
congregation. Announce them in the bulletin or newsletter.
- Publicize school events
that involve youth in your congregation on a special
school bulletin board.
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