The themes for the past couple of years at McNair have been CARE and FINDING YOUR GREATNESS. Building upon those themes this year, we have decided to encourage our students to TAKE RISKS and push themselves to be all that they dream.  To that end we had Grade Assemblies on the first day of school where we talked about the theme for the year and showed the following video to our students (credit to American educator John Spencer who created the video):

We also showed similar types of videos to our staff (at Staff and Educational Facilitator meetings) to encourage our teachers to model the types of risk taking we want to see from our students.  The year is still early, but the repeated emphasis on pushing yourself and taking risks will hopefully result in our educators trying some new teaching techniques and our students achieving better than ever before.  Below is an inspiring video that we showed to our Educational Facilitators:

We hope you are inspired by the videos embedded here and understand the message we are encouraging our students to aspire towards...