---Invite your high school principal to a one-to-one conversation over lunch in the school cafeteria. This will offer you more insight into the challenges that the top administrator for your school faces. It will also offer you insight into the strategies that administrator pursues for helping to resolve conflicts and address major issues at your school.
One benefit from this proposed one-to-one lunch meeting is that you will find that several classmates of yours, and possibly even some teachers, will attempt to poke fun at you or express hostility toward you for having had lunch with the principal. That critical or cynical response from other students, and possibly by at least one teacher, will also serve as a valuable educational experience for you. Regardless of what THEY think of your one-to-one lunchtime meeting with the principal, you yourself believe it was a helpful dialogue experience for yourself.
---Invite your favorite teacher to a one-to-one-conversation over lunch in the school cafeteria. You will remember that meeting for the rest of your life, and it will help to inspire you in any future role that you yourself will have in teaching a skill or subject to others.
---Invite a school counselor to have lunch with you on a one-to-one basis inside your school's cafeteria. It would be a golden opportunity for you to glean insights from that school counselor about the art of listening and offering advice, and the value of identifying and pursuing law-abiding goals for yourself.
---Ask schoolmates and teachers you admire to tell you more about their favorite leisuretime hobbies and pastimes that are honorable. This might encourage to to learn more about those hobbies, and possibly also add at least one of those hobbies or pastimes to your own leisuretime activities.
You might even want to consider helping to establish a Student Hobbies Club that promotes diligence and creativity and sharing of information about hobby pursuits for as many students as possible. Those hobbies will can serve as a lifelong enhancement to your and your schoolmates' quality of life and emotional well-being. The hobbies might also suggest ideas for career pursuits for yourself. If you enjoy collecting postcards for a hobby, you might want to someday pursue a part-time career as a freelance photographer for a travel magazine.
--Keep a personal notes file in your personal computer about each of your schoolmates whom you want to get to know better. This will then give you factual information you can draw upon that will enhance your ability to pose thoughtful questions to that schoolmate and develop a more in-depth acquaintanceship or possible friendship with that schoolmate.
---Attend a Student Council meeting at your school campus. Even if you are not a current member of your school's Student Council, taking the time to listen to the campus issues being discussed at that Student Council meeting could be thought-provoking and inspirational for you. It could also remind you to strive to be an "insider" at your own campus, rather than a mere observer of other students' extra-curricular achievements.
Attending a Student Council meeting could remind you, for instance, to keep notes for yourself about possible or emerging campus issues you have identified that you might want to present before your school's Student Council at one of their future meetings.
-----Obtain a list of honorable educational tutors that your school or school district or the Texas Education Agency state agency recommends, if any such list is available. If you sense that you lack confidence at public speaking, for instance, you could possibly (with help from your parents, if they like the idea) hire a speech tutor or ask a friendly student who excels at public speaking to help you improve your public-speaking skills during your leisuretime. You could then demonstrate to yourself and others that you had achieved progress at public-speaking, by giving a speech at one of your school's Student Council meetings.
----Show some interest in your school's cafeteria, and in your own dietary needs as a student, by asking the manager of your school's cafeteria to post full nutritional information, including in regard to saturated fats and sodium levels and protein levels and vitamins and minerals, at your school's website and also at an easy-to-find location inside or near that cafeteria.
---Find out whether your school has an official school motto, such as the "In Pursuit of Excellence" school motto of Anderson High School of the Austin Independent School District in Austin, Texas, or the "Loyal Forever" school motto of Stephen F. Austin High School of that same public school district in Austin, Texas.
A school motto can be a source of lifelong inspiration to a student and alumnus of a school, since it offers invaluable advice to a student or alumnus of a school on how to live well.
If your school has an official school motto, sponsor a creative project in which you obtain permission from your school's administration to yourself write the school motto in large easy-to-read letters on a poster display that you post to the wall at a prominent location inside your school's campus.
Your poster might feature the following request: "What does your school motto suggest or imply to you?"
This could then suggest the possible need for a workshop or discussion group in which students have a healthy dialogue about the various ways in which their school motto serves as a daily inspiration to them in their everyday lives.
If your school does not have a current official school motto, you could organize a petition to your school's Student Council or administration in which you request permission, with help from lots of student signatures, for your school to adopt an official school motto.
Then after that petition is approved, you could invite students to submit suggestions for a proposed school motto for your school, with either Student Council or your entire student body then being invited to vote on which of those proposed school mottos they like the best.
You might also want to present the winning school motto before a school board meeting, in order to invite alumni of your school to also state their opinion about whether they also like the proposed school motto that was approved by a vote of your Student Council or student bodfy.
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---Invite a school counselor to have lunch with you on a one-to-one basis inside your school's cafeteria. It would be a golden opportunity for you to glean insights from that school counselor about the art of listening and offering advice, and the value of identifying and pursuing law-abiding goals for yourself.
---Ask schoolmates and teachers you admire to tell you more about their favorite leisuretime hobbies and pastimes that are honorable. This might encourage to to learn more about those hobbies, and possibly also add at least one of those hobbies or pastimes to your own leisuretime activities.
You might even want to consider helping to establish a Student Hobbies Club that promotes diligence and creativity and sharing of information about hobby pursuits for as many students as possible. Those hobbies will can serve as a lifelong enhancement to your and your schoolmates' quality of life and emotional well-being. The hobbies might also suggest ideas for career pursuits for yourself. If you enjoy collecting postcards for a hobby, you might want to someday pursue a part-time career as a freelance photographer for a travel magazine.
--Keep a personal notes file in your personal computer about each of your schoolmates whom you want to get to know better. This will then give you factual information you can draw upon that will enhance your ability to pose thoughtful questions to that schoolmate and develop a more in-depth acquaintanceship or possible friendship with that schoolmate.
---Attend a Student Council meeting at your school campus. Even if you are not a current member of your school's Student Council, taking the time to listen to the campus issues being discussed at that Student Council meeting could be thought-provoking and inspirational for you. It could also remind you to strive to be an "insider" at your own campus, rather than a mere observer of other students' extra-curricular achievements.
Attending a Student Council meeting could remind you, for instance, to keep notes for yourself about possible or emerging campus issues you have identified that you might want to present before your school's Student Council at one of their future meetings.
-----Obtain a list of honorable educational tutors that your school or school district or the Texas Education Agency state agency recommends, if any such list is available. If you sense that you lack confidence at public speaking, for instance, you could possibly (with help from your parents, if they like the idea) hire a speech tutor or ask a friendly student who excels at public speaking to help you improve your public-speaking skills during your leisuretime. You could then demonstrate to yourself and others that you had achieved progress at public-speaking, by giving a speech at one of your school's Student Council meetings.
----Show some interest in your school's cafeteria, and in your own dietary needs as a student, by asking the manager of your school's cafeteria to post full nutritional information, including in regard to saturated fats and sodium levels and protein levels and vitamins and minerals, at your school's website and also at an easy-to-find location inside or near that cafeteria.
---Find out whether your school has an official school motto, such as the "In Pursuit of Excellence" school motto of Anderson High School of the Austin Independent School District in Austin, Texas, or the "Loyal Forever" school motto of Stephen F. Austin High School of that same public school district in Austin, Texas.
A school motto can be a source of lifelong inspiration to a student and alumnus of a school, since it offers invaluable advice to a student or alumnus of a school on how to live well.
If your school has an official school motto, sponsor a creative project in which you obtain permission from your school's administration to yourself write the school motto in large easy-to-read letters on a poster display that you post to the wall at a prominent location inside your school's campus.
Your poster might feature the following request: "What does your school motto suggest or imply to you?"
This could then suggest the possible need for a workshop or discussion group in which students have a healthy dialogue about the various ways in which their school motto serves as a daily inspiration to them in their everyday lives.
If your school does not have a current official school motto, you could organize a petition to your school's Student Council or administration in which you request permission, with help from lots of student signatures, for your school to adopt an official school motto.
Then after that petition is approved, you could invite students to submit suggestions for a proposed school motto for your school, with either Student Council or your entire student body then being invited to vote on which of those proposed school mottos they like the best.
You might also want to present the winning school motto before a school board meeting, in order to invite alumni of your school to also state their opinion about whether they also like the proposed school motto that was approved by a vote of your Student Council or student bodfy.
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