The Importance of SEL Curriculum and Fundraising for a Title I School (continued from page 1) awareness, empathy and kindness is a positive win-win for our school community. When it’s time to start the fundraiser, I collaborate with the media specialist in the school media center to help get students familiar with everything they need to help their parents register them for the program, including talking about why we are doing the fundraising event. We think incorporating the health. moves. minds. annual theme is important to get the students excited. We purchase wristbands with health. moves. minds. printed on them, which students can receive for raising $5. Whenever a student turns in their $5, I put the wristband on them, then I place my wristband over theirs and say, “Kindness Powers Activate.” This is fun for the students, and they feel proud to be part of giving and spreading kindness.
Culture of Kindness Our climate of kindness doesn’t just happen during the health. moves. minds. fundraiser. During Random Acts of Kindness Week, we give students a challenge to aspire to complete during the school week, spreading kindness in the classroom and at home. And throughout the year, students put sticky notes on the POWered by Kindness wall to represent an act of kindness they did at school, at home, in the store, or anywhere. It is filling up!
Aquila Elementary's “POWered by Kindness” wall is getting filled with sticky notes representing students’ acts of kindness.
We are happy to see what health. moves. minds. has done for our school — through both the SEL activities and the fundraising, which helped us raise needed funds for our PE department to keep our students healthy. The best compliment of this program was hearing from parents during parent-teacher conferences that they are so pleased with how the emphasis on kindness (including the posters and general atmosphere) has made the school feel safe by promoting inclusion, kindness and empathy.
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