Growing Gratitude in our Students
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Character GPS partnered with three different schools this Fall semester 2023: West University Charter High School, Seminole Heights Charter High School and Stewart Magnet Middle School. We recently completed 3 different Character GPS Graduations and they are a piece of heaven! Please come to one in the future to experience this inspiring event!
One of the activities we encourage our students to do is write thank you notes right before graduation to us or to whomever they would like to write one to including their Principal, parents, guardians etc. Not everyone participates in this but we love to read these heartfelt notes and compile them into a summary after the graduation. Expressing gratitude is an important exercise and needs to be taught, in fact, we are thinking about incorporating this into our curriculum earlier in the year so that they have made it a habit and as we teach kids...it takes 30 days to form a new habit!
Hot of the press...here is the summary of the Thank You Notes from this year:
That is a lot of words, but you also need to see some of their drawings:
"The only thing stopping him is himself!" Huge self awareness moment...he can go get his driver's license, he can do it and he also is appreciating his grandpa more now than ever!
Cultivating gratitude in our students' lives is as important as cultivating it in our own lives. Jeff and just hand wrote around 100 cards most of which are cards thanking our donors and partners! A labor of love! It was fun doing it together and thinking about that person as we are writing the card, we are also praying for abundant blessings to be poured out upon each recipient of our cards!
We are thankful for many things including our students, partners and we enter 2024 looking forward to new students to connect with and help. We know that we are planting the seeds of gratitude into young lives!
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Gratitude
Cultivate it
Grow it
Practice it
Use it
Spread it
Thankful for you today!
Debbie Cain and Jeff Cain @Chara