Ideas for School and Community Implementation IDEAS FOR

Ideas for School and Community Implementation? IDEAS FOR IMPLEMENTATION

Ideas for Implementation • Develop a Student EPIC Leadership Team (Students can make presentations to student government and leadership groups) • Develop Community Service/Service Learning Goals that include the EPIC theme • Develop goals for schools to integrate our success Descriptors as the common language • Introduce to the PTA and link discussions to what Parents are already doing at home • Put EPIC in your school/parent newsletter • Send home family discussion starters

Ideas for Implementation • Devote a page in the student handbook to EPIC • Have made or have students make by contests banners, posters, bumper stickers, t-shirts, murals, etc. that will display messages about EPIC throughout the school and community • Connect with existing community wide events • Plan and organize at least one community wide event such as a kickoff and at least one school event a year such as a kickoff or celebration • Continue training new staff and community members About EPIC

Ideas for Implementation • Have an EPIC Sports Program • Make EPIC Rock Gardens or Name Community Parks as EPIC Parks • Make sure your school marquees proclaim you are an EPIC school • Have EPIC essay contests and use quotes or maxims as the introduction to the essay • Have booklists available to all students that hallmark the EPIC traits • Have themed EPIC assemblies

Ideas for Implementation • Open rewards for acting with EPIC traits • EPIC ceremonies and rituals • EPIC Pride campaign • EPIC Student newspaper where “hero” stories are highlighted • EPIC honor roll • Peer and cross-age mentoring • Calendars, notices and fliers • Make EPIC a part of Gymnasium, Cafeteria, Playground and School Buses