{"id":49,"date":"2012-11-12T16:03:59","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T16:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andersons.com\/?p=49"},"modified":"2023-01-27T16:59:06","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T16:59:06","slug":"ideas-to-boost-school-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itselementary.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/ideas-to-boost-school-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"Ideas to Boost School Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Contributed by Kori J., Cheer Advisor, Costa Mesa, CA<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin: 12px 20px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.andersons.com\/~\/media\/Andersons\/blog\/How-do-you-use-school-spirit-to-increase-engagement--camaraderie-in-you-school-4.ashx?w=300&amp;h=200&amp;as=1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"20\" vspace=\"12\" \/>Here are some ideas to boost School Spirit among students and staff.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Create a student section, rope off a section just for students to sit right in front of the cheerleaders &#8211; create a &#8220;cool name&#8221; for them.<\/li>\n<li>Teach the students some of the fun cheers and chants&#8211; use them to help the other side hear just how spirited you are.<\/li>\n<li>Get your school band involved- learn dances and shouts to the songs they play.<\/li>\n<li>Have fans of the week and announce them during a quarter break, have them come down to the field and get their prize.<\/li>\n<li>Encourage your fans to dress in school colors- paint their bodies, hold signs etc.<\/li>\n<li>Have your cheerleaders do &#8220;fan throws&#8221; throw shirts, beads, megaphones, or other spirit items&#8211;this always gets the fans crazy.<\/li>\n<li>Decorate your stadium, gym etc&#8211;posters, balloons, streamers, make your crowd feel like they are at a party.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contributed by Kori J., Cheer Advisor, Costa Mesa, CA Here are some ideas to boost School Spirit among students and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,19,30],"tags":[177,689,471],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elementary-school","category-middle-school","category-school-spirit-middle-school","tag-decorating-ideas","tag-school-colors","tag-school-spirit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itselementary.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itselementary.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itselementary.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itselementary.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itselementary.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.itselementary.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5908,"href":"https:\/\/www.itselementary.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/5908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itselementary.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itselementary.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itselementary.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}