This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.
My Students
My students are beautiful and brilliant. Our class consists of multi-level learners. Our school is a high-poverty, Title I school, meaning that one hundred percent of our students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. A fraction of my students are homeless, and many of my other students have houses or apartments they share with one or more families. Some of my students do not have a bed to sleep on. I've noticed they are hungry in the mornings and by midday. We are an extended day school where the kids stay later than a usual school dismissal time.
Our school is located in a high-poverty neighborhood, but my students work very hard every day.
Our class has a ninety-eight percent attendance rate, which means the students rarely miss school. We value our learning time. My students come from multi-ethnic backgrounds, each with distinctive cultural traditions. In our classroom, we blend our traditions to form strong community ties.
My Project
I want to be able to reward students weekly for their hard work, perfect attendance, and improvements with a weekly drawing of McDonald's gift cards and a monthly drawing of Krispy Kreme's gift cards to help motivate them to come to school and work hard while they are here.
During this pandemic, I have been purchasing the gift cards out of my pocket.
Now I need help with funding these incentives as they originally came out of my pocket, but I saw how effective they were in motivating my students and increasing class participation (ESPECIALLY amidst the pandemic). They are not wholly reliant on these incentives to succeed, but it was still a nice way to lighten up their moods and a way to bring the classroom reward system straight to their homes - literally. I will mail the card to their home address. As we have a McDonald's and a Krispy Kreme within walking distance this will be great for my students.
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