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"Getting caught" doing something good at Park Avenue
Around the building, and on the buses, staff members are supplied with Positive Action Tickets, which they use to nominate students. At the end of every month, the top two ticket earners from each class are treated to popcorn and a movie in the Park Avenue auditorium with Principal Betsy Gorman, and Assistant Principal Michael Febbraro. Gorman and Febbraro have taken the program a step further, connecting their character education activities to the curriculum. "We have been working with staff members to create lessons and activities that support student learning and also relate to the virtue of the month," Febbraro explained. "These lessons not only promote good character and citizenship, they also build English Language Arts skills, such as reading, writing and listening."
More than 60 students at Amityville's Park Avenue Elementary School were recognized for demonstrating good character and positive virtues as part of the school's Positive Action program. They were rewarded with a movie and popcorn, hosted by Principal Betsy Gorman, and Assistant Principal Michael Febbraro, who not only showed the movie Shrek, but also dressed as the swamp creature himself.
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