Spill Your Spirit

Student Council collected new toys and donated them to the local children’s hospital.

Student Council collects colorful bad-aid for less fortunate children in need of medical treatment. – Tesoro del Valle

Student Council collected blankets and donated them to the local animal shelter. – El Oro School

Each year the student council focuses on a project for a different part of the world. This year they are helping orphans in Indonesia.

An organization is chosen to benefit from a 5K walk. – Spring Hill School

As a part of the ever-growing green movement, your school can also get involved in becoming more energy efficient! Teachers can ask students to make a small classroom donation and have bake sales to raise money to buy solar panels for the school. Then, once enough money is gathered, one day at the school can be spent installing the solar panels with students. The students can also decorate the solar panels with markers and posters. – Soulsbyville Elementary School

Contact a large shoe company to see if they are willing to donate some shoes to your cause. Factories can have hundreds of unused shoes lying around so they may be willing to comply to your request. Once you have obtained shoes, have members of your organization decorate them in creative and artistic ways. Then auction them off to your friends and community. – Emery Elementary School

To proactively reduce the nation’s dropout rate, it is possible to begin with students who are struggling at the elementary level. In order to do so, schools must first identify students who are identified as potential dropouts through the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System (CALPADS) which is implemented throughout the state. Then, schools can partner teachers or older students with these at-risk individuals in a close mentorship program to foster a greater educational importance with each student. Ultimately, a program like this can benefit students in the long run by fostering an attachment to school at an early age. – Westminister Elementary School

During an established Disability Week, the school requires their students to infuse instruction and activities related to disability history into the school curriculum. During Disability Week, students have the opportunity to learn how people with disabilities were instrumental in changing history, and how they are still normal human beings. During the physical education classes, students can participate in wheelchair basketball and sports on crutches. Students learn the challenges and can literally experience the disabled individual’s perspectives. Overall, the students gain a new insight and respect for disabled people. – Sequoia Elementary School

Student leaders visit each classroom to encourage students to sit with different kids at lunch. Stickers are distributed i.e. hearts, stars so that students with the same symbol will sit together.

Dress for Success Day: dress up for the career you want to have. It’s a great way to raise career awareness at a young age. Imagination Day: have the students dress as their favorite book character! It’s a great way to promote reading.

Classroom doors are decorated with poems and letters for Valentines Day (Taft School) A rubric is created for judging doors and the student council serves as judges.