Meme Win

As I navigate the one to one classroom, I've hit a few snags that make me feel like I'm hitting my head against a brick wall.  None of these are big by any means, but they sure can make things a little more difficult.  One of those snags is ear buds.  We use them almost daily, but many students don't have them.  I realize that for some students it is beyond their control, but for many of my students that is not the case.  They just don't bring them! (insert crazy teacher face here!!!)   I post announcements in Google Classroom, hang signs in my doorway that the kids had to duck around, and send out mass emails to remind them to bring their earbuds.  While this got a few more, it wasn't enough.  I think out of pure frustration and absolute defeat I decided to do something different to see if that caught their attention.  I mean, maybe the students needed to see the misery I was going through trying to get them to comply to a pretty simple thing.  I hopped on the computer and found a meme generator ((I used this site to make mine! ) and the rest is history.  Every few days I would make a new one and place them in random spots in our hall and bathrooms.  It didn't take long and the students were commenting on them and even looking for them when they arrived every morning.  The staff seemed to enjoy them as well and I would catch them laughing after reading them.  I even had a parent stop me in the grocery store and say that their student had sent them a picture of one of my memes to remind them to buy them a pair....WIN!!!!  Like any good thing, you don't want to over use it, but it did lighten things up and put some smiles on faces that wouldn't be their if I was nagging them.