In The Spotlight Superintendent Letter   Downloadable Files: November Word of the Month - GRATITUDE November word of the month is Gratitude.  Gratitude, thankfulness, gratefulness, or appreciation is a feeling,emotion or attitude in acknowledgment of a benefit that one has received or will receive.

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December Word of the Month - COMPASSION Compassion is a virtue — one in which the emotional capacities of empathy and sympathy (for the suffering of others) are regarded as a part of love itself, and a cornerstone of greater social interconnection and humanism — foundational to the highest principles in philosophy, society, and personhood.

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January Word of the Month - INTEGRITY Integrity  is a concept of  consistency  of actions, values, methods, measures, principles, expectations, and outcomes. In ethics, integrity is regarded as the  honesty  and  truthfulness  or  accuracy  of one's actions.