Filling buckets with encouragement

Teachers at Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic (OLS) School recently learned a way to encourage each other and their students. A teacher’s retreat was inspired by the book How Full Is Your Bucket: Positive Strategies for Work and Life, along with the spiritual guidance from OLS Church Pastor Monsignor Martin Muller. 

As a part of a special gift, each teacher received a bucket with an angel figurine containing a name of a faculty or staff member. This was to show how they are to encourage the theme of giving and caring for each other throughout the school year. They were asked to continually pray for and encourage their co-worker or “angel” by filling their bucket with prayers, encouraging words and notes, as well as taking care of that person’s well-being. 

It also described ways teachers can implement these same ideas in their classrooms to inspire their students to do the same for their fellow classmates. Throughout the year, each classroom is participating in the endeavor to reinforce the love and teachings of Jesus by encouraging and helping one another. 

“It is so refreshing to learn how the teachers are carrying on what they learned from their retreat to their classrooms,” said Mary Jane Dorn, OLS principal. “As a result, each teacher is now showing their students how they can ‘fill each other’s buckets’ with Christian values.” 

-Submitted by OLS