{"id":2507,"date":"2023-02-07T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/?p=2507"},"modified":"2023-01-12T17:33:05","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T17:33:05","slug":"building-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/building-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Building Community"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In our last post, David Arencibia (one of three finalists for NASSP &#8220;Principal of the Year&#8221;) talked about the importance of setting high standards and establishing a culture of FUN. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another finalist, Donna Hayward, addresses an equally important aspect of school culture &#8230; building a sense of community and family. In this <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/corp.smartbrief.com\/original\/2022\/11\/nassp-principal-build-connections?utm_term=0D8D01C3-DCB4-4CFF-B855-A92CDA28919B&amp;utm_campaign=3E572E12-3FBC-11D5-AD13-000244141872&amp;utm_content=FD919983-ADAE-41B6-A98B-DB9F5D44DAD7&amp;utm_source=brief\" target=\"_blank\">Smart Brief article<\/a> , she describes her school&#8217;s journey and offers several ideas worth emulating. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of Hayward&#8217;s biggest goals this year has been &#8220;supporting teachers who are pretty tired, pretty fried,&#8221; and letting them know that self-care is vital and that they&#8217;re among friends who can relate. The importance of a sense of community should never be underestimated. In her words, &#8220;One step at a time, we&#8217;ll get through it together!&#8221; She believes that this attitude has been a key component in significantly improving outcomes for the students, teachers, and staff at her school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our last post, David Arencibia (one of three finalists for NASSP &#8220;Principal of the Year&#8221;) talked about the importance of setting high standards and establishing a culture of FUN. Another finalist, Donna Hayward, addresses an equally important aspect of school culture &#8230; building a sense of community and family. In this Smart Brief article [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[476,475,478,327,477,315],"class_list":["post-2507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-building-community","tag-diane-benson-harrington","tag-donna-hayward","tag-school-culture","tag-self-care","tag-teacher-support","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2507"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2513,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507\/revisions\/2513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}