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In a cafeteria lined with 12 attributes of good character, the Neosho R-5 Charitable Foundation honored the district’s Character in Education program during its annual banquet.
The event was held Thursday night at the Neosho High School cafeteria. Adorning the cafeteria walls were placards listing the 12 character traits schools district-wide hope to instill in students: commitment, team work, cooperation, respect, integrity, responsibility, caring, honesty, courage, self control, perseverance and patriotism. The program was recognized during the banquet.
Kim Wood, president of the Neosho R-5 Foundation, presented a plaque to Tiffany Sanny, a second grade teacher at Carver Elementary School and the district’s coordinator for the Character in Education program.
Before moving to Carver, Sanny was a teacher at Central Elementary, which initiated the program in 1996. Sanny works with Alma Stipp, former principal of Central and current assistant superintendent in charge of curriculum, and teachers and staff members who dedicated to implementing the Character in Education process in each building in the district.
Sanny said there are many stories in the district that happen nearly every day, stories of students holding doors open for others and adults, WatchDOG dads working with students, and teachers working together with students on projects.
Joan Davis, keynote speaker for the event, said to understand the importance of character education in schools, one only needs to read today’s headlines.
“How are we walking the walk?” she asked. “Through the Wildcat Character Carnival, where games are based on character attributes. Through character assemblies, through the WatchDOGS programs, which had 296 dads, granddads, uncles and other father figures participate, through community involvement, through the YMCA promoting the traits in ads.”
Davis told of students who have turned their lives around through the program, going from being at-risk to accepting college scholarships and, in one case, yearning to eventually become a teacher himself.
“We all have to walk the walk,” she said. “There are 4,300 students and 10,000 people counting on this investment.”
The annual R-5 Charitable Foundation banquet is a major fundraiser for the group, which is currently conducting a campaign to raise $50,000 to purchase and install SMARTBoard technology for classrooms at Neosho Junior High School and NHS. Last school year, the foundation raised $75,000 to purchase and install SMARTBoards in all classrooms at Neosho Middle School.
In a cafeteria lined with 12 attributes of good character, the Neosho R-5 Charitable Foundation honored the district’s Character in Education program during its annual banquet.
The event was held Thursday night at the Neosho High School cafeteria. Adorning the cafeteria walls were placards listing the 12 character traits schools district-wide hope to instill in students: commitment, team work, cooperation, respect, integrity, responsibility, caring, honesty, courage, self control, perseverance and patriotism. The program was recognized during the banquet.
Kim Wood, president of the Neosho R-5 Foundation, presented a plaque to Tiffany Sanny, a second grade teacher at Carver Elementary School and the district’s coordinator for the Character in Education program.
Before moving to Carver, Sanny was a teacher at Central Elementary, which initiated the program in 1996. Sanny works with Alma Stipp, former principal of Central and current assistant superintendent in charge of curriculum, and teachers and staff members who dedicated to implementing the Character in Education process in each building in the district.
Sanny said there are many stories in the district that happen nearly every day, stories of students holding doors open for others and adults, WatchDOG dads working with students, and teachers working together with students on projects.
Joan Davis, keynote speaker for the event, said to understand the importance of character education in schools, one only needs to read today’s headlines.
“How are we walking the walk?” she asked. “Through the Wildcat Character Carnival, where games are based on character attributes. Through character assemblies, through the WatchDOGS programs, which had 296 dads, granddads, uncles and other father figures participate, through community involvement, through the YMCA promoting the traits in ads.”
Davis told of students who have turned their lives around through the program, going from being at-risk to accepting college scholarships and, in one case, yearning to eventually become a teacher himself.
“We all have to walk the walk,” she said. “There are 4,300 students and 10,000 people counting on this investment.”
The annual R-5 Charitable Foundation banquet is a major fundraiser for the group, which is currently conducting a campaign to raise $50,000 to purchase and install SMARTBoard technology for classrooms at Neosho Junior High School and NHS. Last school year, the foundation raised $75,000 to purchase and install SMARTBoards in all classrooms at Neosho Middle School.
