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Hi Theresa,

We get FISH training as past of our teacher development right here at school. Every month is a diffenent module so we can try tem in our classroom.

Hello Rachael.........Just revisited this site and noticed your shout out. Sorry for the long delay. Hope this new year is bringing you joy.

Our VP for instruction, Larry Drucker, teaches FISH once a month here at the High School and we receive our continuing ED credits for attending. He is on the FISH network also.

Thanks Racheal, its interesting to explore why you write this way. I would love to be a "writer " of any description but have always found that my attempts at reflective writing only last about a week!
I enjoy writing on the Fish network because this gives me a record of our journey, but also gives me a reason to write, in response to others or their ideas, works best for me.
I'm interested in your attempts to work in the University sector, it seems quite a different process from here. I worked for about 5 years in our local University and started when I was about 26. Ihad a very good friend and mentor that allowed me to do some guest lecturing and when he got very ill he asked me to take over from him. I enjoyed my time there, but really prefer teaching or influencing younger children and my teaching staff.
Now it is somewhat harder to get into the university field with at least a PHD required for tenure, the pay here is quite a bit less than what I get as a Principal (which is not my motivation at all just a statement) though I guess the actual lifes tyle is less demanding?
Thanks for replying to me I have found your blogs and responses very informative

Rachael, Read your blogs and am really interested in who you want your intended audience to be, how you go about getting that audience to show interest in the blogs, and then how you intend to use the blog as an educational leader rather than "adminsitrator". Delete Comment

I would love to share with you some of the things that we do. First, we show the FISH video at each new hire orientation. We also encourage employees to come down and join in on the fun if they have already seen the video. We give out a FISH to every single person at our company. We have a rule that you are supposed to throw your FISH 5 times a day. We have a website internally that we post FISH pictures and good quotes. We call these inspirational quotes "fishisms". There are lot's of other things that I would love to share with you. Please, ask questions. Thanks. -Meredith

Some of the activities we've done are: cookie making, a fish toss, random acts of kindness week, speed networking, speed interests, grazing day (where we went from cube to cube and ate all day), and dance classes. Let me know if you'd like more info on how any of these work! :)

Welcome to The FISH! Philosophy network Rachael - hopefully you'll get some great tips from fellow FISH! folks on here.

Out of curiousity, how did you find us?

It's a small world! I'm happy to share with you some of the FISH activities that we've done to get our staff interacting with each other. That's really our goal more than anything. They enjoy their jobs and they are present, but need to put work down and have fun every now and again!