Here Are 6 Ways We’re Celebrating Teachers This Week
Happy Teacher Appreciation Week AdoptAClassroom.org is excited to celebrate teachers all week long! We want to thank teachers for their hard work and dedication to helping their students learn and succeed. To show our gratitude, we teamed up with some of our great partners to appreciate teachers during Teacher Appreciation Week. Check out these opportunities […]
4 Tips for Building Positive Relationships With Your Students
The role of the teacher has changed so much in my 13 years in the profession. Teachers find themselves constantly being asked to do more with less. One of the many things teachers do is build meaningful relationships with all students. You know how the saying goes, “Kids don’t care what you know until they […]
More Than $395,000 Raised for Classrooms in ACE Communities Nationwide, and Counting
This May, select ACE Cash Express locations across the country will be participating in ACE’s annual Give A Little Campaign, in partnership with AdoptAClassroom.org. The goal? To support teachers in need in ACE communities so they can purchase the classroom supplies their students deserve to succeed. How it works From May 1-31, ACE employees will […]
Q&A: How Funding Professional Development Creates a Stronger Classroom
Kindergarten teacher Janice has raised more than $5,600 on AdoptAClassroom.org from individual donors and Spotlight funds in order to support her classroom needs. She purchased much-needed classroom supplies, but she also used the donations to pay for professional development courses to help her effectively utilize the materials she ordered. We hear from teachers and principals […]
In this Special Education Classroom, Everything Is Adapted to Help Students Succeed
Korto Dixon is an early childhood special education teacher for an autism classroom in Minneapolis, MN. She knew she wanted to teach students with autism while she was still in elementary school. Today, Ms. Dixon teaches in the same school district where she grew up. “I’ve just always been a really firm believer that […]
Win a $25 Gift Card From Lakeshore Learning
May is Teacher Appreciation Week, and in celebration our partner Lakeshore Learning is giving away $250 in gift cards to AdoptAClassroom.org teachers! Today through May 11th, you can enter a K-12 teacher to win one of ten $25 digital gift cards to Lakeshore Learning when you send that special teacher one of our free thank-you […]
How to Ensure Important AdoptAClassroom.org Emails Reach Your Inbox
As a virtual, nonprofit organization, we send important messages that help us make a difference in classrooms across the nation every day. Often these messages are delivered by email only, and we want to ensure you receive them. Teachers and principals receive messages when they have a new donation in their account to spend, when […]
Turnkey Ways Businesses Can Give Back to Local Teachers
Teachers as a whole work hard everyday because they genuinely care about their students and want them to do well. Often, their dedication and extra efforts go unnoticed or unappreciated. But, if they stop and think about it, most people can name at least one teacher that really stood out and made life better for […]
Five Tips from Dr. Jakeisha Gibson on Telling Your Story
Telling the story of your classroom can be overwhelming. You spend most of your time in the classroom, thinking about your students, or lesson planning. You can talk about your profession for hours, but how do you distill the most important information into a few paragraphs? Crafting a donation ask can be hard, but it […]