It's almost over! But I hope you will continue to learn more and more about your chosen (yep, you picked it) profession as you go. It is crucial that you maintain your own student status so that you never lose sight of what your kids feel like. In my doctoral class I just recently read Letters to those Who Dare to Teach by Paulo Freire. I highly suggest it. Great insight and validation for our profession.
For today's post...I want to know your school colors and your school mascot (i.e. Kerrville Tivy colors are blue and gold and the mascot is the Antler...). Why would I want you to know this? Because there is research that clearly indicates that students want to belong. For example, if they want to be part of a gang then why not their school "gang?" Perhaps creating a sense of community will help them belong in some way and help reduce that need to look for negative attention as their source of attention. Not perfect but perhaps it is a start. And the feeling of school pride and the love of learning can begin with you...even as the BI teacher, the AE teacher or their athletic coach. Your attitude is everything and the only thing you really can control!
And yes, we will have one more blog next week. See you for our last class on Monday, 2/8/2010!
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I am at Cunningham Middle School and our School Colors are Green and Gold and we are the Proud Cougars. Our School is one of the oldest of the Middle Schools in the City. It is our 50th Anniversary Year. Our Teacher Liason sells more "Cougar" shirts that any other shirt offered. I personally believe that even though we have our fair share of "problem kids" we have an excellent student body who does care about each other and about the school. I think our "gang" is pretty unique. My little gang in the AE Unit has an extreme sense of pride in being "Cougars" and I use every opportunity to instill that pride. During our annual door decorating contest we entered and we went all out and WE WON! The class was very excited and we had an ice cream social. We all pigged out and had a great time. I want to take this opportunity to say "Thank You" to all of my classmates and wish them well and especially to you for your expertise and your patience.
ReplyDeleteI work at the Flour Bluff Junior High. Our colors are maroon and white and the mascot is a Hornet. And yes I had to look up maroon in the dictionary to make sure I didn't embarrass myself.
ReplyDeleteI teach high school Spanish for the Karnes City ISD which was founded in 1894. It is a large district that covers 361 square miles. Our school colors are orange and white and our mascot is a badger. Go Badgers!!!
ReplyDeleteMaria Turner
I teach at Flour Bluff Intermediate - our school colors are Maroon & White & our Mascot is a Hornet. We encourage our students to be "SUPER Happenin' Hornets"!!!
ReplyDeleteAl-you need to order one of those shirts for me! ;) Scott-thank you for making me laugh today! You are too funny ;) Maria-you are amazing! Keep me posted about your test! And to A. Foster-thanks fir "fostering" that school spirit (couldn't help myself)! Thanks for posting! ;)
ReplyDeleteGood evening, Bonnie, and fellow educators! I teach at Richard King High School. Our colors are forest green and base white. Our mascot is the "Mighty Mustang"......and, believe it or not, the very large statue of our mascot in the eating concourse is even "anatomically gendered"!!?? Just a bit of (probably) useless, or even TMI, tid-bit!
ReplyDeleteI teach at W.B. Ray High School
ReplyDeleteNamesake: William Benton Ray, former CCISD board president
School Mascot: Texans
(a "macho" cowboy with a gun)
School Colors: Scarlet & Silver
Jiri (george) Kucera
I teach Texas History. Texas is one of the few states that requires our students to take a state history and we are the only state that requires our students to take state history twice. We do this because of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, Third President of the Republic of Texas, who established public education in Texas so our children would grow up with a unique since of pride (guess it is working, hu).
ReplyDeleteI teach at Baker Middle School, we are Broncs, and we wear red and white!
Ingleside High School proudly calls the Mustang its mascot,and our school colors are blue and white.
ReplyDeleteI could not have hoped for a better work place than IHS. All heart, full of pride!
I teach at Dawson Elementary which is one of the largest (student enrollement) elementary schools in the district. Our colors are red, white, and blue. Our school was named after a war hero named Joe Dawson and our mascot is a Patriot. It's really a great campus to work at!
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ReplyDeleteI teach Spanish at Foy H. Moody High School. OUR school colors are Royal Blue and Yellow. OUR mascot is a Trojan, a warrior (from Troy).
ReplyDelete"Welcome to Foy H Moody High School where
'Pride, Excellence and Success' are
'The Moody Way.'" This is how OUR website greets everyone.
WE support and promote students to live their lives by OUR motto, "THE MOODY WAY."
Oh... By the way, GO TROJANS!!
ReplyDeleteAwesome posts! Thanks for your time! :-)
ReplyDeleteI work in Alice, Tx. our district colors are burnt orange and white. Our mascot is a coyote, though every campus has their own colors ours in Mary R. Garcia are navy blue and white. We are called Wranglers why I have never asked.
ReplyDeleteAt Incarnate Word, our colors are red and white, and we are known as the Angels.
ReplyDeleteBaker Middle School recently was one of 26 schools in Texas to receive nomination by the U.S. Department of Education as a Blue Ribbon School. I am proud to say I teach 6th grade Math at Baker. Baker Broncs school colors are red and white. Go Broncs!
ReplyDeleteMeadowbrook Elementary and our mascot is a Pony and our school colors are red and white.
ReplyDeleteI teach at the at the old HEB on Saratoga...I mean the School of Science and Technology. It is difficult to explain because we have no sign on our building yet, our kids have P.E. in the parking lot, and most people don't realize we were open for this school year.
ReplyDeleteWe have never discussed the actual school colors, but our logo looks like an olympic torch with red and blue, and the school uniform is red with a blue stripe, so I'm sure those are it.
Mascot? A few months ago our principal wanted to choose one so he asked us our opinion on a few names. "Marlins?" no, Jones Elem. "Barracuda's?" no, Grant middle. "Tigers?" no, Carroll Tigers are right down the road. (you can guess that our administration is not from around here. Someone suggested the "Robots" because of our robotics team and our tech emphasis (and we all laughed a little.) So we put it up to a vote the next day for the kids to choose.
After each of the names was called some kids voted here and there, but when we said "robots" they all started doing the 'robot'! They loved it! Needless to say, we are now the SST-CC Robots.
Unfortunately I teach at a cheap charter school and we have no school colors but we do have t-shirts with an eagle on it so I'm assuming that is our mascot. I had never heard of a school not having school colors or even promoting their representation of their school but I do work for one. I wish we did have a more organized and a more school spirit school. Hopefully next year I will be part of a school that does have school spirit.
ReplyDeleteI am the behavior specialist for Aransas County ISD in Rockport, TX. We are the Pirates and our colors are Green and Gold.
ReplyDeleteI teach at King High School. Our colors are green and white and we are the Very Mighty Mustangs! I watched two of my Senior wrestling students win the District Wrestling Champship today! I have seen my freshmen girls win basketball and my senior tennis girls practice. I was supportive of my football players at many a game (and they were terrific!) I was thrilled to watch our girls volley ball team win district, and next week I will be thrilled to view the art of one of my Government students as she shows it at Texas A&M. Yes, we are MIGHTY MUSTANGS!!
ReplyDeleteBen Bolt-Palito Blanco High School, blue and white are the colors, and the mascot is a badger.
ReplyDeleteAwesome posts! Thanks again for your time!
ReplyDeleteI work at Meadowbrook Elementary, we are the Ponies and our school color is red. I could not be any happier, Meadowbrook has great kids but the staff is truly amazing. I look forward to working with everyone at Meadowbrook every single day and am thankful to be part of such a wonderful team.
ReplyDeleteI teach at James W. Fannin Elementary School - our colors are gold and blue and our mascot is the Fannin Eagle.
ReplyDeleteWe are "in flight of excellence".
Awesome! Thanks for posting! Go Colts! :-)
ReplyDeleteI teach in Alice, at Memorial Intermediate. We are the 'lil coyote, our colors are hunter green and white.
ReplyDeleteI teach at King HS here in CC. Our Mighty Mustang colors are green and white.
ReplyDeleteI teach theatre arts and speech at West Oso Junior High. Our school colors are red and black and our school mascot is a Mighty Bear!! Go OSO!!
ReplyDeleteCollegiate High School ROYALS!
ReplyDeleteNavy and Silver (and white)
I teach 2nd grade at Ella Barnes Elementary! Our scool colors are yellow and blue! We are the "suns"! Fitting for South Texas! Those were some great words of wisdom you posted! Thank you for encouraging us to be the best that we can be always! See you tomorrow!
ReplyDeleteMartin Middle School: Blue and Gold
ReplyDeleteGo Trojans! 8th Grade Boys B-Ball city finals against Baker Broncs on Wednesday! Yipee! Go Trojans!
Cunningham Cougers!!!
ReplyDeleteGreen and gold (same as my college alma mater, so my green and gold golf club covers help me root for both schools!)
I am a PreK teacher at Travis Elementary. We are the fighting falcons and our school colors are blue and white. Go Falcons!!!
ReplyDeleteI am a 4ht grade Math and Science Teacher at Falfurrias Elementary School. Home of the mighty, fighting, JERSEYS. Our colors are green and white. Falfurrias is an Lipan Indian name for a small beautiful flower that grows only (indigenous to) Falfurrias. Falfurrias means "heart's delight."
ReplyDeleteGo J-E-R-S-E-Y-S!!!
I am a Resource Teacher at Port Aransas ISD and work at Olsen Elementary. Our school colors are blue and white and our mascot is a Marlin. GO MARLINS!!!
ReplyDeleteMrs. Spear
ReplyDeleteI am lifeskills special ed teacher at West Oso, red black white. Mascot-bears
Sam Houston Elementary are red and white. We are the bobcats. Our school is very warm positive and caring environment. All students and staff show our Bobcat PRIDE where ever we go. All student and staff are respectful. They even will open the door for you. We have an excellent positive discipline program in place. You will surely feel safe.
ReplyDeleteGibson Elementary
ReplyDeleteSchool Colors: Hunter Green & White
Mascot: Bear
Our school has tons of Bear pride! We try and implement "Bear Pride" on a daily basis during announcements and every chance we get. The kids have a sense of well being and pride when it comes to their school.
Lamar Elementary School
ReplyDeleteBlue and White
Honey bears.
well I teach in Premont Texas our colors are red and white. Our school mascot is cowboys but our logo is a cowboy on a bucking bronco.
ReplyDeleteI Teach At Yeager Elementary School, our School colors blue and white and out mascot is the mighty tigers. Our school is a older school in the district but we take pride in our school.
ReplyDeleteI teach at Nooan Elementary in Alice, Texas. Our school colors are red and white. The school mascot is Mustangs. Way to go, Mustang Magic. Rah, Rah, Rah!
ReplyDeleteI teach at Premont High School. Our colors are red and white. Our mascot is a cowboy. Our logo is a cowboy riding on a bucking bronco.
ReplyDeleteCMS colors are maroon and white and our mascot is the WILDCAT! Go Wildcats!
ReplyDeleteI'm at Baker MS in CCISD and we are the Baker Broncs! Our colors and red and white and we have a lot of school pride.
ReplyDeleteI teach Texas History but I'm not as content-savy as Mrs. Smith! I do enjoy learning new things about our state, however. Today I found out that Zachary Taylor had 3,000 soldiers at the beach right here in corpus christi until he was ordered to Mexico in 1846.
I work a charter School the mascot is an eagle. The colors are blue and gold.
ReplyDeleteSouth Park Middle School
ReplyDeleteColors: RED AND BLACK
Mascot: SOUTH PARK KNIGHTS
Premont High School
ReplyDeleteColors: Red and White
Mascot: Cowboys
I am at Blanche Moore Elementary. Our school colors are blue and white and the mascot is an eagle. There are a lot of kids here that have a variety of different problems but they are still kids.
ReplyDeleteCullen Middle School
ReplyDeleteColors: Red & Blue
Mascot: Colts
I teach at King High School and our mascot is the Mustang and our colors are Maroon, Hunter Green and Grey.
ReplyDeleteWe are the Eagles and our color is Green. However, sometimes we use the Red & White colors and Cottenpicker mascot of our high school.
ReplyDeleteI teach at Moody High school & to be honest I had no idea where this school was. I was pretty suprised when I found out it was near Sam's Club, I love that store & go there just about every week. So now after work I get to stop by before I get home. Well our school colors are blue & gold; the Trojan is our mascot.
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