7 Habits of Happy Kids!

This past year, our school attended a professional development to learn about Franklin Covey's leadership program, the "7 Habit of Highly Effective People."  We decided to implement a lot of his ideas into our school to foster leadership and pride among our students.  "7 Habit of Happy Kids" is a spin they did on the ideas to make the language and images more kid friendly.  Whatever you call it, it is the same ideas and principles.  This summer, I painted a large mural in the front of our school to go along with the program.  It is the 7 habits tree that outlines the 7 habits.  It is 8 feet wide by 14 feet tall.  Let me tell you, scafolding is a bit scary for a clutz like me!  No worries though, I survived!

Faux Frames

I am part of our "Office Environment" committee at one of the schools I teach at.  Our committee was given the task of coming up with a new "theme" to decorate with in the office.  We decided to display student art samples inside "faux frames" painted on the wall.  With help from a fellow teacher, I painted the frames on the walls in bright colors and we hung mounted art inside of them.  They really brightened up our office space, I think they look great!