Why You Should Support School Fundraisers

Why YOU Should Support SCHOOL FUNDRAISERS a guide n for teachers, pr incipals, and administratio

TEACHERS Teachers spend the most time per day with students, so they will need to be in touch with student needs. This means that supporting the fundraiser should be your top concern. Happy students create a thriving learning environment. You need supplies and additional expenditures to ensure that students are getting the most out of this experience. In addition, it means you will need Did you know? all of the essential supplies and According to the resources for equipping students National Center for education in an evolving digital world. Think about the for Education possibilities: a new computer lab, Statistics, public more educational movies, a field school teachers trip to the science museum... spent an average of 52.8 hours per week on teaching and planning in 2008.

WHY you should help: Puts money in the budget for classroom supplies and books. Allows for special field trip expenses. Funds to afford the expensive digital equipment that your students will need to know in the future. HOW you can help: Offer a fun prize incentive if a certain goal is met, such as extra lunch time or a classroom pizza party. Buy something from a student to show your support on a personal level. Remind students of the goal, such as new computers in the library.

“I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teachers for living well.” ~ Alexander the Great

PRINCIPALS Teachers, parents and administration look to the Principal every year to prioritize what is best for the students. From the changing school lunch menus to the budget for after school activities and clubs, you are the decision-maker. Use this authority to show students how to be leaders and achieve the goals they set for themselves in the fundraiser. Did you know? Before he was the 37th President of the United States, Lyndon B. Johnson was a school teacher and principal in Cotulla, Texas.

WHY you should help: Establish a better relationship with parents to know families on a deeper and more personal level. Teach the valuable lesson of working together to achieve a greater goal. HOW you can help: Offer a fun prize or incentive (such as shaving your head) if a certain fundraising goal is met. Deliver speeches at the beginning of fundraiser events that motivate and inspire students. Be the face and voice of the fundraiser. Ask students in the hall how they’re doing.

It is a greater work to educate a child, in the true and larger sense of the word, than to rule a state. ~ William Ellery Channing

SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION The administrators are the foundation of the school. They Famous People work hard to make sure everybody is happy and safe Who Worked while learning. While it may in Schools: seem that duties of the fundraiser are only required of Stephen King the students and teachers, it is Gene Simmons equally essential for Art Garfunkel administrators to support the school with such a big Roberta Flack endeavor. Build a strong Andy Griffith alliance within the school Sheryl Crow community! ...and you.

WHY you should help: Get in touch with the needs of the families and communities at large by learning about the need for the fundraiser in the first place. Build a strong community/school alliance. HOW you can help: Acknowledge and publicize the fundraiser on a daily basis. Support the students with a purchase or pledge! Spread the word to other administration and community leaders. Lend a hand by volunteering for fundraising activities or donating space in the school to conduct fundraising activities.

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Why You Should Support School Fundraisers

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