September is BE NICE Month

Published September 1, 2017

September is BE NICE Month and it’s time to celebrate. This is the fourth year for the district-wide movement, and this year’s theme is “Every 1 Counts.”

To help us kick off this special month, we’re excited to unveil a new video featuring some of our celebrity friends.

Beginning next week, we’ll launch a new video series featuring some of our BE NICE student ambassadors. The videos were taped May 24 at the district’s annual BE NICE Leadership Summit where students and staff members from across the district came together to learn new ways to spread the BE NICE message.

As in year’s past, Williamson County Mayor Rogers Anderson will proclaim September as “BE NICE Month” at the September 11 County Commission meeting. Cities and towns across Williamson County will be doing the same this month.

Background

In the 2013-14 school year, a group of Fairview High School students and staff began working on ways to create a culture of kindness in their school. Together, they came up with the slogan BE NICE and began printing t-shirts and signs with the mantra. As the message spread, photos of students, teachers, celebrities and professional athletes holding the BE NICE sign began to appear on social media. More importantly, teachers and students at Fairview High began to report a change in student behavior. Turns out, the BE NICE message was making a real difference!

On September 3, 2014, Williamson County Schools hosted a special event at the Franklin Theatre to kick-off the start of the district-wide BE NICE movement. Student representatives from each school were joined by mayors from around the county as the district celebrated the BE NICE way of life.

For the past three summers, students and staff representatives from each school have come together as part of the BE NICE Leadership Summit.