Personalized Greetings: Definition and Key Features

Documents

Click here for a downloadable and editable email that you can send to families and caregivers asking for help on pronouncing their child's name correctly and why it is important.

Click here to access a Google doc a teacher created to send out to families asking about their child's interests, strengths, and preferences.

Websites

Padlet and Flipgrid are online collaboration tools that allow users to create digital boards where they can share ideas, comments, and multimedia content in a visually organized way. Teachers can create discussion topics specifically focused on greetings, where students and families can provide insights into their preferred greetings and how they feel welcomed and valued in the classroom.

Handouts

Personal Greetings & Check-Ins (pdf)

Documents

Click here for a downloadable and editable email that you can send to families and caregivers asking for help on pronouncing their child's name correctly and why it is important.

Click here to access a Google doc a teacher created to send out to families asking about their child's interests, strengths, and preferences.

Websites

Padlet and Flipgrid are online collaboration tools that allow users to create digital boards where they can share ideas, comments, and multimedia content in a visually organized way. Teachers can create discussion topics specifically focused on greetings, where students and families can provide insights into their preferred greetings and how they feel welcomed and valued in the classroom.

Handouts

Personal Greetings & Check-Ins (pdf)

Documents

Click here for a downloadable and editable email that you can send to families and caregivers asking for help on pronouncing their child's name correctly and why it is important.

Websites

This website provides useful strategies for pronouncing and remembering students' names.

Videos

This 2-minute video celebrates students' identities and name pronunciation.

Documents

Click here for a downloadable and editable email that you can send to families and caregivers asking for help on pronouncing their child's name correctly and why it is important.

Handouts

This handout (pdf) is a something you can print out and have students complete to celebrate their name and their pronunciation.

Websites

This website provides useful strategies for pronouncing and remembering students' names.

Videos

This 2-minute video celebrates students' identities and name pronunciation.

Documents

Click here for downloadable Word document that lists 20 ways you can greet students.

Handouts

This handout (pdf) provides a good visual depiction of types of greetings you can give as options.

This handout is another good depiction of greeting options you can print out and put on your door - including an 'opt-out' choice.

Websites

This website can support K-5 teachers in offering multiple options for assignments to meet the needs of all students, including having an "opt-out" choice, is Seesaw. Teachers can include an "opt-out" choice within the assignment, allowing students who may need alternative accommodations or who prefer not to participate in a particular activity to choose an alternative task.

Videos

This 1-minute video, above, shows a way that students can choose how to be greeted in the morning.

This 2-minute video, above, shows a teacher making a personal connection with students by welcoming them with their choice of greeting.

Documents

Click here for downloadable Word document that lists 20 ways you can greet students.

Handouts

This handout is another good depiction of greeting options you can print out and put on your door - including an 'opt-out' choice.

Websites

This website can support K-5 teachers in offering multiple options for assignments to meet the needs of all students, including having an "opt-out" choice, is Seesaw. Teachers can include an "opt-out" choice within the assignment, allowing students who may need alternative accommodations or who prefer not to participate in a particular activity to choose an alternative task.

Videos

This 1-minute video, above, shows a way that students can choose how to be greeted in the morning.

Documents

Click here for a downloadable and editable Excel sheet that you can use to track greeting students.

Handouts

This handout, from PBIS, is brief break down of why and how teachers use personalized greetings.

Websites

Class Dojo is a one way educators can track greeting all students at least once per day.

Videos

This 4-minute video, above, highlights the research that has been conducted on the use of greetings and discusses how teachers can fit this strategy into their busy schedule.

This 3-minute video, above, highlights the social connectedness and choice that students have at being greeted at the door.

Documents

Click here for a downloadable and editable Excel sheet that you can use to track greeting students.

Handouts

This handout, from PBIS, is brief break down of why and how teachers use personalized greetings.

Websites

Class Dojo is a one way educators can track greeting all students at least once per day.

Videos

This 4-minute video, above, highlights the research that has been conducted on the use of greetings and discusses how teachers can fit this strategy into their busy schedule.

Documents

Handouts

Websites

Teachers can use BrainPOP Jr.'s resources on emotions and social skills to facilitate discussions with students about how their feelings can influence their interactions with others, including greetings.

Videos

This 1-minute video, above, demonstrates six options that students can choose from to be greeted in the morning.

Documents

Handouts

Websites

Teachers can use BrainPOP Jr.'s resources on emotions and social skills to facilitate discussions with students about how their feelings can influence their interactions with others, including greetings.

Videos

This 1-minute video, above, shows another example of how teachers can greet students quickly and efficiently.