Each day featured a different theme and students voted to honor the nicest students and teachers in every grade level. Students put encouraging sticky notes with positive messages on their classmates\u2019 lockers.<\/p>\n
Students in the Positive Youth Alliance, the school\u2019s equivalent of a student council, led the campaign, CMS counselor Robin Cote said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s good to celebrate something positive,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The school wrapped up \u201cDude, Be Nice\u201d with an assembly Tuesday in which the nicest students and teachers were honored.<\/p>\n
Monday was Pajama Day, in which students celebrated community; Tuesday was Hat Day, and students celebrated themselves; Wednesday was Crazy Hair Day, celebrating students\u2019 differences; Thursday was Jersey Day, celebrating students\u2019 teams; and Friday was Superhero Day, celebrating student\u2019s real-life heroes.<\/p>\n
CMS Assistant Principal Beth Benavidez told students during the assembly that each of them needs to have a trusted adult, such as a parent or teacher.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen people don\u2019t have a dude being nice, we need to let somebody know,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The students also were provided a phone number for a \u201cSafe to Tell\u201d hotline, so they can report a problem if they see one. All messages to the hotline will be investigated by the school and police department, Benavidez said.<\/p>\n
Counselor Carrie Schneider-Lemay told students that small gestures can make a big impact.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou all make a difference one action at a time,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
day featured a different theme and students voted to honor the nicest students and teachers in every grade level. Students put encouraging sticky notes with positive messages on their classmates\u2019 lockers. Students in the Positive Youth Alliance, the school\u2019s equivalent of a student council, led the campaign, CMS counselor Robin Cote said. \u201cIt\u2019s good […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,147,13,60],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-70350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-cortez-middle-school","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-montezuma-county"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70350"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=70350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}