Past projects 7
Husky Hut and Reward Positive Behavior!
Funded Mar 3, 2025Our project got funded!! Thanks to you and other generous donors like you, our students will be able to have amazing incentives and rewards for their expected behaviors. We are so grateful for your willingness to invest in our students and their futures. They are not only learning academics but also how to be good citizens. Thank you again for your donation!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Birch
Reward Positive Behavior 2025-26!
Funded Sep 20, 2024My project got funded because of YOU!!! Thank you for your generosity and belief in rewarding students for the good they are doing!! And thank you for empowering me to motivate my students, reward them, and create positive relationships with them in order to TRULY make a difference in their lives!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Birch
This classroom project was brought to life by The Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation and 11 other donors.Reward Positive Behavior!
Funded Mar 14, 2024Thank you so much for your generous contribution to this project. Knowing that we had an iPad secured was an amazing motivational tool for our students! Specifically, it motivated students to get involved, improve attendance/punctuality, do well academically and follow the expectations of our schoolwide community.
The iPad was the grand prize in our locker sticker sheet drawing. Throughout the year, the students try to fill as many locker sticker sheets as possible and turn them into the office for the drawing. Each locker sticker sheet has room for 9 locker stickers. Students earn locker stickers for perfect attendance (monthly), no tardies (monthly), GPA (quarterly), following school expectations like technology off and away (quarterly), participating in spirit days, etc. We do a drawing at the end of the year with all the locker stickers. There are lots of prizes from school attire/gear to Lego sets to sports equipment. But the thing all of the students really want is the iPad!
Thank you for providing our students with something that motivates them to come to school, get involved and do the right things!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Birch
Reward Positive Behavior
Funded Mar 30, 2023As you read from my project, this iPad was used as an incentive to reward positive behavior. Throughout the school year, students were informed that whenever they turned in a locker sticker sheet (a tracking sheet that showed positive behavior), it would be entered into a drawing for the end-of-the-year assembly. During that assembly, rewards ranged from school spirit gear to giftcards to the grand prize, an iPad.
Students were so excited about these rewards throughout the year that they continued to display positive behavior and turn in multiple locker sticker sheets. Rewards for positive behavior have proven much more effective than punishments for negative behavior.
You should've heard the chatter at the end-of-the-year assembly when I said it was time to draw a name for the iPad. Students were almost sad when they won a different drawing because they wanted that iPad. Finally, the winner was announced and celebrated. It was a wonderful experience--THANK YOU!!!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Birch
Reward Amazing Students!
Funded Dec 30, 2022Thank you so much for your generous donations to help our school purchase Amazon giftcards for our students! The joy we see in their faces and verbal responses is immeasurable. In fact, multiple students came to my office after they made their purchases to tell me what they got and how excited they were about it.
After other students saw our winners in the assemblies and the rewards they got, we have seen an increase in engagement with our positive behavior reward systems. Students are trying to fill their locker sheets and getting them turned in to be entered into the drawing.
Students earn sticker through positive behavior including attendance, participation in extracurricular activities, exceptional GPA, Student of the Month (student displays monthly character trait i.e. supportive, respectful, kind, perseverance, etc.). Students' positive behaviors are increasing and improving and the rewards that are given to them--intrinsic and extrinsic--are especially motivating. Thank you so much!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Birch
Reward Amazing Students!
Funded Oct 27, 2022I am beyond grateful for your donation to my Donors Choose page! Thank you from the bottom of my heart!
The giftcards have made an immediate impact among my middle schoolers! This month, we did grade level drawings for a giftcard. Students had to earn a "PAWS Pass" from a staff member by acting respectfully, working responsibly and/or staying safe. Student could then enter those PAWS Passes into the drawing in the front office. Our drawing containers were packed full! We drew a winner from each grade level container at our monthly recognition assembly. Kids, parents and staff were all very excited!
Because of your donation, students were motivated to earn PAWS Passes by behaving appropriately. We had the opportunity to reward students doing the right thing! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Birch
Compasses, Calculators and Patty Paper -- A Geometer's Best Friend
Funded Dec 8, 2016Thank you just does not seem adequate! I can not thank you enough for your donation to our classroom project. Because of your donation, our classroom received graphing calculators, compasses, and patty paper. Although this might seem small to some, it has made an immediate impact on my students!
When I opened the box during one of my classes, the students were surprised and grateful for the tools that would help them be successful in the classroom. For instance, the patty paper was used immediately in our transformations unit. The patty paper made it much easier for students to "see" the transformations happen. I heard some of my favorite words, "OH, NOW I get it!" It was music to my math teacher ears.
The difference that has been made that will continue over a long period of time is the addition of 5 graphing calculators to the classroom. For the first time in years, I did not have to see the look of disappointment on a student's face when I told them that I didn't have any more calculators available for the final exam. I didn't have to see that look because I am quite close to having a class set of calculators. With the few students who have their own calculators, I had enough for each of my students. The reduction of stress and increase in confidence was palpable in the classroom!
Again, I can not say thank you enough. Please know, your donation is making a difference every single day in the lives of hundreds of students!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Birch