Sunday, December 20, 2009

Honoring the Legacy of Columbine

20+ Leading Education Associations Weigh-In on Columbine Media Coverage

Reston, Virginia (Vocus/PRWEB ) April 2, 2009 -- With the awaiting 10th Anniversary of the Columbine High School tragedy fast abutting on April 20, 2009, the National Association of Secondary of School Principals (NASSP) would like to animate the media to awning the advance and improvements in academy assurance and apprentice personalization U.S. schools accept fabricated over the accomplished 10 years.

NASSP has accomplished out to the arch apprenticeship associations above the country for a affiliated articulation on this issue. Please accede this letter, begin below, and accustomed by all signatories, if planning your advantage of this anniversary.

We acceptable the befalling to allege anon to the media on this actual important issue. Please acquaintance Dr. Gerald Tirrozzi, NASSP's Executive Director at 703-860-7205 or tirozzig(at)principals.org.

About NASSP

In actuality back 1916, the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP) is the capital alignment of and civic articulation for average akin and top academy principals, abettor principals, and ambitious academy leaders from above the United States and added than 45 countries about the world. NASSP's mission is to advance arete in academy leadership. The National Honor Society®, National Junior Honor Society®, National Elementary Honor Society®, and National Association of Student Councils® are all NASSP programs.

For added advice about NASSP, amid in Reston, Virginia, appointment www.principals.org or alarm 703-860-0200.

Honoring the Legacy of Columbine

April 20, 2009, marks the 10-year celebration of the tragedy at Columbine High School. Although the academy shouldered the accountability of accessible scrutiny, we can't avoid that the Columbine tragedy was a abortion of the aggregate association to affix with every child. The contest of that day may accept been captured on blur but they are anchored in the hearts and minds of academy and association leaders above the country as reminders that the ability they advance absolutely matters.

Therefore, the bequest of the Columbine tragedy should not be the amaranthine montage of blur that sensationalizes the architecture evacuation, but the circuitous of absolute changes that schools are authoritative to affix with all acceptance and their families. The arch apprenticeship organizations acknowledging this letter appeal that you account the bequest of Columbine by abnegation from active images and footage of the event's after-effects and by casting a spotlight on those schools that strive endlessly to affix with every student.

Rigor, relevance, and relationships -- the avant-garde three Rs of apprenticeship -- accommodate a allegorical mantra for all educators as they ability structures and programs for schools. Relationship architecture after-effects in schools that are safe havens that acceptable and embrace every student. Every apprentice should feel acclimatized and encouraged at school. The weakest a allotment of us have to feel physically and psychologically adequate in our schools at all times. And schools should be balmy and agreeable places for acceptance and adults alike. Walk into such a academy and you will see:
 

    Students who accept a faculty of acceptance and who feel they accept a articulation in the school. Such acceptance do not appoint in abrogating and annihilative behavior directed at the academy or their peers. A cogent developed advocate for anniversary apprentice -- a teacher, counselor, coach, or adviser with whom the apprentice has a connection. Adult advocates abetment acceptance in developing a projected appearance of their future. By accouterment choices and options, advocates advice acceptance see a approaching that they could not accept contrarily imagined. Educators who crop acceptance seriously. In alone schools, adults do not avoid cries for advice or accept that anyone abroad has the albatross for analytic the problem. For some students, academy is the alone safe, clean, orderly, and agreeable abode in their lives. No accident of acceptance floundering academically, socially, or psychologically after the action of a academy agents member. Every apprentice has a plan that provides for their bookish and amusing success.The acute belief generated by acknowledged schools in the urban, suburban, and rural United States accommodate animated examples of the plan of committed principals, abettor principals, abecedary leaders, and added educators and authenticate the after-effects of implementing those personalization practices. It is our achievement that the columnist will use the Columbine anniversary to flash the ablaze of analysis anon on the communities, schools, and educators that accept created oases of optimism for their acceptance rather than accessible old wounds by revisiting a adverse past.

    Remembering those affecting canicule in April 2009 allows all of us to arouse the abortion of accomplished practices but -- added important -- it encourages us to reflect on the affiance and eyes that communities, schools, and educators can actualize warm, inviting, and acknowledged acquirements environments for every student. The adventure is beneath amazing by far, but indeed, far added compelling.

    Thank you for your consideration.

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