Student Compliments From Jan Kardatzke, a fifth grade teacher at Emerald Elementary School in Broomfield, Colorado: "In fifth grade sometimes students are more interested in being mean to or teasing each other than in treating people respectfully. To help promote looking for the good in each other, we do 'put-ups' at least once a week. We thank individuals for nice things that thy've done for us and for others. Around the hoidays we have the students write compliments for everyone in our class. Those compliments are compiled into a full-page sheet, mounted on a decorated border, and given to the students for a holiday present. We've had many parents say that their students keep thier gift on the bulletin board at home and are encouraged to refer to it when thing aren't going so well. I love to see their reactions as they read it for the first time."