Picturing Myself Happy

School:: North Naples Middle
Subject:: Special Needs Students
Teacher:: Catherine Crowley
: Heather Tuttle, Melissa Kutz
Students Impacted:: 55
Grade:: 6-8
Date:: August 1, 2022

Investor

Thank you to the following investor for funding this grant.

Women In Naples Giving Support (WINGS) - $939.82

Impact to My Classroom

# of Students Impacted: 57

This project worked out beautifully for my classes. I started the project with three objectives. Fristly, I wanted to increase engagement in my classroom. Using the Ipads and phones to take pictures certainly accomplished that. Secondly, I wanted students to look at their peers and notice how they were feelings. Students were certainly MORE aware of this after completing the project than they were before. Lastly, I wanted for my students to see themselves happily engaged in class and be able to refer to those photos of themselves when they needed to "remember" what feeling happy looked like for them. Many of my students did exactly that, often. I am so grateful that I had the opportunity to do this project the the MC 3 students at NNMS.

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Student working happily in class.

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The look of happiness

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Proud of his work

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Beaming

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What does Happiness look like?

Original Grant Overview

Goal

For students who need visual support during the day to see themselves HAPPY in pictures on their classroom walls.

What will be done with my students

Students will be taught about emotions and what certain emotions LOOK like. Students will then be assigned a classmate and asked to (with teacher and student permission) catch an example of that student looking happy and use a school device to capture a picture of that student when they are feeling (and looking) happy. We would then like to be able to print those pictures in color and post a copy in each classroom.

Benefits to my students

Students will practice NOTICING when others are feeling happy, will understand that someone is looking for them to be happy and will be reminded in times of distress what it looks like (and hopefully feels like) to be happy.

Budget Narrative

Our students are working hard to recognize emotions in themselves and others. It is standard practice to show them pictures to help with this but research has shown that using pictures of themselves and their friends is more effective. We have not had the funding to print and display pictures of them.

Items

#	Item	Cost
1	Canon Pixma Pro-200 Wireless Professional Color Printer	$599.99
2	Photo Paper @ 17.99 x 5	$89.95
3	Canon CLI Color Ink @ 124.99 x 2	$249.88
	Total:	$939.82

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Picturing Myself Happy

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