To make each student at Pine Ridge Middle School feel welcomed and valued.

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Lifting Others

School:
Pine Ridge Middle 
Subject:
Other 
Teacher:
Pamela Schram 
Students Impacted:
200 
Grade:
6-8 
Date:
August 9, 2023

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A Champion for Learning - $1,850.00

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Impact to My Classroom

# of Students Impacted: 850

1. The entire student body understands that WE RISE BY LIFTING OTHERS. We have various bulletin boards around the school all year promoting that theme, AND all staff wore t -shirts promoting it.

2. We lifted others by: 

a. Forming a club called ROCK (Roots of Compassion and Kindness) led by students at FGCU. We met and brainstormed ways to make a compassionate atmosphere here at the school. We fed both the middle school team and the college team at 3 meetings. The team ordered t-shirts to spread their name and message.

b. Sharing lunch once per month with new students as well as with students who sat alone at lunch or needed a buddy. At 2 of those lunches we made treats for Easter and Valentines Day.

c. Sponsoring lunches and breakfasts for students who were doing great things to promote our school climate.

d. Providing snacks in the PBIS room for students who earned good behavior reports.

e. We had a kindness wheel that we spun at lunches 4 times to reward students who were nominated for being kind. They received different treats and prizes on the wheel.

f. Sponsoreing a Heritage Fair to show that all nationalities are welcomed and valued at PRMS.

g. Helped pay for breakfast for those students who honored our Veterans this year with breakfast and a program.

h. We paid for some bulletin board items that were needed to show our theme.

i. Sponsored a luncheon just for students from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and other Baltic states, because there were so many and they did not know each other. 

 

 

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A bulletin board

 

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Students enjoying lunch together in PBIS room

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Winter board

 

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New friends enjoying lunch

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New students welcomed in

 

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Original Grant Overview

Goal

To make each student at Pine Ridge Middle School feel welcomed and valued. 

 

What will be done with my students

They will be invited to attend WE DINE TOGETHER every 3-4 weeks in a special room near the lunch room. This is for new students as well students who just have not found that special group of friends yet. They will eat pizza, or subs, or whatever the treat of the day is, and they will talk with each other, play board games, and talk with counselors who will be in the room. Last year we averaged 25 students each lunch period. We have business cards to invite them, but they can also walk in without being personally invited.  

 

Benefits to my students

When students do not feel engaged and accepted they either lose all self esteem or lose any interest in school that may have once been there. They need to know they are not alone in those feelings they have. Not only are there adults on staff to help them, but there are students in their same predicaments, and students who are kind enough to welcome others. That makes both groups so much better as friends and classmates. To give is certainly to receive. Our school theme this year is: "We rise by lifting others." We will preach that all year long and our halls are currently decorated with that message.  

 

Budget Narrative

In the past it has cost us $80 for pizzas ($40 each lunch).
Submarines will be split in half and we want this as an alternative to the pizza.
We make the baked goods, as a rule, but the ingredients can get expensive. We buy the large boxes of salty snacks so the students have their own bags and more choices. Some students will not eat sugared snacks (yeah) so at times we have various fruits with a dip. I believe our program will grow this year and I wanted to provide room for that in the amounts shown. Students always have their own water bottles.  

 

Items

# Item Cost
1 Pizza $700.00
2 Subs $400.00
3 Chips/pretzels/Takis $150.00
4 Fruit/dip $300.00
5 Baked goods $300.00
  Total: $1,850.00

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