DifferenceMakers, Ltd. - The HeART of Teaching

Comprehensive Manual
Ideas, resources, forms, and slicks for helping you easily and quickly capture/recapture the respect and self-respect they deserve. Use this binder to collect and store all the items and documents you use this year for faculty/staff recognition. Then next year, review these items, modify, adapt, and adjust the components for effectiveness. Doing this will keep your program fresh!

Resources CD
Printable forms, slicks, documents, templates, and an inspirational PC screen saver to make your recognition projects easy and fun.

Video DVD
Booster Shots - short, ready-to-use inspirational videos that can be used to periodically stimulate the motivational cycle with positive thoughts and ideas. The Artist and the Clay - based on the poem written by (Apples for the Difference Makers creator and author) Mike Smith - another short, ready-to-use inspirational slideshow that can be used at in-service meetings, during morning announcements, or any staff gathering to add the extra “boost” when your staff needs it most.

PowerPoint ® Templates
Two customizable PowerPoint® presentation templates (included on Resources CD) designed to help you showcase and motivate your staff when used in conjunction with ideas outlined in this manual. Welcome To... is a presentation designed to help everyone understand the “big picture” of your school community and the important roles they play. Because of You... is a year-end presentation highlighting many of the differences your staff has made in their students’ lives.

Apples for the Difference Makers provides you with all the tools you need to plan and execute a year of staff appreciation. You can use these tools in a number of ways - from your year-long plan to periodic “booster shots.” The constant reinforcement of the value of great mentoring and modeling will only enhance your staff’s self-image. And as an added bonus, these programs lend themselves well to public relations outside the walls of your school.

The important thing is to plan an entire year’s worth of events and activities, including as many people in the presentation ideas as you can. The more, the merrier!

Apples for the Difference Makers product brochure (PDF)
The Artist and the Clay inspirational slideshow (Flash 8 and broadband connection required)

Price: $199.00 (includes 1 DVD, 1 CD-ROM, and 43-page manual) plus S/H

For more information and to order, call 800.658.6082.

This program is also available from NASSP and from your local Herff Jones scholastic representative. Find your local Herff Jones scholastic representative.