Start the year with joy and positivity for teachers and staff, while easing the load for administrators.

2-Program Package

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What is it?

There’s only one certainty at the start of each year: THE ATTITUDE AND MORALE OF YOUR TEACHERS AND STAFF WILL BE CRITICAL TO HAVE ANY SUCCESS AT ALL.

As you plan and prepare for everyone to return, don’t you wish you had something fun already done for you? Something easy, where you could copy/paste emails? Something that is proven to inject laughter and smiles and boost morale, but nothing that’s going to add to your stress or theirs? Well, this is it!

Everything is done for you. Consider it your start-of-year tool box for integrating staff and starting on the right foot.

How it works.

Includes 9 quick, flexible, EASY TO EXECUTE activities to use in the background of the first days and weeks the staff returns, as well as in your welcome back meetings. Stop looking for new ideas on social media and instead use professional, fresh programs done for you. Examples:

• “The Great Escape” - Burnout is at an all-time high, but is there anything worse than sitting through the “team building” at a start-of-year meeting? This year, skip the gimmicks and use our most requested activity to build your community the right way.

• “The More You Know” - Super humorous “Public Service Announcement” presentation for cleverly reviewing new policies, guidelines, and the staff handbook. Based off the old NBC “The More You Know” PSA commercials, and you get to insert members of your own team into the video.

• “Off to the Races” - Guerrilla community building that will have the whole school laughing and cheering, and nobody needs to know you planned the whole thing.

• “SEEECRETS” - 10-minute activity for welcoming new staff and letting senior staff show off their humor and school knowledge.

• “Our school. Together.” Empower the staff to take ownership and be the change for improving and uplifting the school. Great for setting the tone of being a school family where everyone is valued.

• “See Something, Say Something.” 1000% just for fun and laughter. You begin with an email reminding everyone to always report anything odd, then follow up using our emails to create some of the most ridiculous situations throughout the school to see who reports what.

Reviews:

“These are so valuable to my staff.  The Great Escape was an amazing 3 months of fun that just kept going.  THANKS!!!" -Duane Ehmen

“The SEECRETS activity was a hit! At first it was a great way to open up and help “on-board” our new staff, but we loved it so much that we’ve made it a permanent section in our monthly newsletter.” – Carrie Bonilla

“This was the turn-key solution I’ve been looking for! We’ve had the best energy to the start of a year ever. Sooooo much fun, especially Off to the Races! I’m telling all our other principals about it and you can expect to hear from them soon.” – Lara Latto

What is it?

“The Teacher Contest!” is a professional, week-long mystery contest we run for you. Perfect for August or September to set the tone for the year, it fits into the background of any normal workweek, instantly injecting energy and smiles.  Everything then culminates with one of the most joyous 30-45 minute staff meeting finales that you will ever hold.

Fill out the 10-minute setup file to form your teams and pick your date, then we take it from there. Everyone is welcome to participate, not just teachers. Keep grades together to strengthen bonds, or mix them up to increase communication.

How it works.

Everything runs through email and the web, making it super simple on the administrators.

The mystery kicks off with an announcement that there will be a contest with a special SECRET prize picked out for the winners. That's all the information at this time, but everyone should look for an email the next day.

The following morning, we take over sending out hilarious emails to each of the teams detailing how someone in the school has been leading a double life, and how their team must now win this contest.

You'll be amazed how fast everyone is energized and how quickly the halls are filled with laughter and smiles.

Each day teams get new emails, new missions, and new clues. Everything builds upon itself, and they must strategize, communicate, and come together as a team to solve the mystery and win the contest

"Missions" only take 5 minutes a day to complete, but they’ll be talking about it all day. The goal is to make their week more enjoyable, not add more work to it!

The plot involves twists, turns, clues, and tons of humor. There are jokes, hidden clues, riddles, talent competitions, trivia, and contests of all kinds.

The only requirement for the school is a prize for the winning team, but you get creative ideas so the prizes need not cost you anything.

Reviews:

“It was exactly what we needed! I haven't laughed that hard with this group of people EVER before! The staff loved it and it helped to cement our foundation of trust and collaboration for the rest of the day's professional development topics. Thanks so much for offering the program to us! I'll be sharing the idea with the rest of my colleagues to use in the future” --Leslie Hochsprung, Principal

“Quite honestly, I was shocked at how much the staff got into it. I have always prided myself on having an upbeat and positive work climate, but I don't think we realized how much we needed something fun to do as a staff until this event came along! In my 14 years, I've never seen anything quite like it. Thank you!” -- Jeffrey Riel, Principal

“The game was fantabulous! They jumped right on it! I broke up when I walked into the room for our meeting. The decorations were HILARIOUS! I was amazed at how much energy they found and put into this! The games were fabulous. In the end, I received a lot of “thank-yous” and “wow, I didn’t realize how stuck in the trench I was” and “we needed that.” I have always been very leery of pre-produced team building activities. Most of the ones I have come across have been quite lame and out of touch and I’ve had to make up my own. It was quite refreshing to use yours! Thank you” -- Jill Wright, Principal, Cornerstone Academy

“Hi Tim, it was beyond my imagination! We had such a great week. Best of all was the laughter that filled my school and the camaraderie that my staff who works so hard all year exhibited. It was priceless! I rate The Teacher Contest 5 stars. I will gather some pictures for you this weekend. Thank you.” --Cindy Donnelly, Principal

“It's been great! I said at our school board meeting last night that this has been one of the best weeks in my four decades of teaching!   Hearing my staff laughing in the halls, especially at this time of year, is a joy to my heart!” -Sharon Stanley, Principal, Winfield School

About Class Team Building

Class Team Building is a collaboration between corporate team building experts and k-12 teachers to make professional-level, astonishingly fun, morale and culture programs available and affordable to schools.

We believe in making programs that are easy to implement, highly effective, and always 100% guaranteed.

Enjoy your Start-of-Year Community builder and consider joining our members for the 2024-2025 school year as we work to support school cummunities.