{"id":268,"date":"2021-02-03T14:37:09","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T19:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smho-smso.ca\/emhcsecondary\/?page_id=268"},"modified":"2021-12-19T11:30:15","modified_gmt":"2021-12-19T16:30:15","slug":"impromptu-thank-yous","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/smho-smso.ca\/emhcsecondary\/positive-motivation-and-perseverance\/expressing-gratitude\/impromptu-thank-yous\/","title":{"rendered":"Impromptu thank yous"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class='accordion md-accordion' id='accordion0' role='tablist' aria-multiselectable='true'><div class='card'><div class='card-header' role='tab' id='Instructions-0'><a data-toggle='collapse' data-parent='#accordion0' href='#collapseOneInstructions-0' aria-expanded='true' aria-controls='collapseOneInstructions-0'><h3 class='mb-0'><em class='fas fa-angle-down rotate-icon'><\/em> Instructions<\/h3><\/a><\/div><div id='collapseOneInstructions-0' class='collapse show' role='tabpanel' aria-labelledby='collapseOneInstructions-0' data-parent='#accordion0'><div class='card-body'><p>Provide context for the practice (see \u201cEvidence\u201d section).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ask students to recall\/remember recent acts of kindness they have noticed, such as a smile.<\/li>\n<li>Ask students to reflect on how that made them feel.<\/li>\n<li>As a group, brainstorm examples of thank you statements.<\/li>\n<li>Students will be invited to share a note of thanks.<\/li>\n<li>Distribute paper\/thank you notes to the students and request that they write a grateful thank you note.<\/li>\n<li>Students may choose to keep or deliver the note afterwards.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='card'><div class='card-header' role='tab' id='Adaptations-0'><a data-toggle='collapse' data-parent='#accordion0' href='#collapseOneAdaptations-0' aria-expanded='false' aria-controls='collapseOneAdaptations-0'><h3 class='mb-0'><em class='fas fa-angle-down rotate-icon'><\/em> Adaptations<\/h3><\/a><\/div><div id='collapseOneAdaptations-0' class='collapse' role='tabpanel' aria-labelledby='collapseOneAdaptations-0' data-parent='#accordion0'><div class='card-body'><p>This practice can be done as a whole school approach, where caring adults are also sharing \u201cthank yous\u201d. Positive comments go a long way to enhance a sense of belonging and of being valued for all.<\/p>\n<p>Ask students to think of one specific thing each of the following people has done for them and say\/write thank yous:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>someone in their family<\/li>\n<li>someone with whom they are a close friend<\/li>\n<li>someone in their school community<\/li>\n<li>someone they don\u2019t know in their community (server at a coffee shop)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='card'><div class='card-header' role='tab' id='Evidence-0'><a data-toggle='collapse' data-parent='#accordion0' href='#collapseOneEvidence-0' aria-expanded='false' aria-controls='collapseOneEvidence-0'><h3 class='mb-0'><em class='fas fa-angle-down rotate-icon'><\/em> Evidence<\/h3><\/a><\/div><div id='collapseOneEvidence-0' class='collapse' role='tabpanel' aria-labelledby='collapseOneEvidence-0' data-parent='#accordion0'><div class='card-body'><p>Student perceptions of kindness at school are instrumental in shaping their opinions about their school&#8217;s climate (Binfet et al., 2016; Embry &amp; Biglan, 2008). Activities that support the development of kind interactions for staff and students can support the goals of a safe and positive school climate to foster learning and prosocial behaviours (Binfet et al., 2016). Embry &amp; Biglan (2008) explain that verbal or written praise shared publicly or privately from either a caring adult or via peer-to-peer interactions, increases cooperation, social competence, positive interactions or relations, academic engagement\/ achievement, work performance, and physical health, while reducing disruptive, aggressive or violent behaviours and vandalism.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='card'><div class='card-header' role='tab' id='References-0'><a data-toggle='collapse' data-parent='#accordion0' href='#collapseOneReferences-0' aria-expanded='false' aria-controls='collapseOneReferences-0'><h3 class='mb-0'><em class='fas fa-angle-down rotate-icon'><\/em> References<\/h3><\/a><\/div><div id='collapseOneReferences-0' class='collapse' role='tabpanel' aria-labelledby='collapseOneReferences-0' data-parent='#accordion0'><div class='card-body'><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Binfet, J. T., Gadermann, A. M., &amp; Schonert-Reichl, K. A. (2016). Measuring kindness at school: Psychometric properties of a School Kindness Scale for children and adolescents. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Psychology in the Schools, 53<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(2), 111-126.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Embry, D. D., &amp; Biglan, A. (2008). Evidence-based kernels: fundamental units of behavioral influence. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Clinical child and family psychology review, 11<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(3), 75\u2013113. doi:10.1007\/s10567-008-0036-x<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To encourage the importance of expressing thanks and benefit from helping another<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702,"parent":174,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"practice-template.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[15,31,51,17,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-include","category-monthly","category-positive-motivation-and-perseverance","category-promote","category-virtual-option"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smho-smso.ca\/emhcsecondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smho-smso.ca\/emhcsecondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smho-smso.ca\/emhcsecondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smho-smso.ca\/emhcsecondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smho-smso.ca\/emhcsecondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/smho-smso.ca\/emhcsecondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1011,"href":"https:\/\/smho-smso.ca\/emhcsecondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/268\/revisions\/1011"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smho-smso.ca\/emhcsecondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smho-smso.ca\/emhcsecondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smho-smso.ca\/emhcsecondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smho-smso.ca\/emhcsecondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smho-smso.ca\/emhcsecondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}