6 Ways to Give Back to Schools
As daughter of a former school teacher, growing up, my mother always made it a priority to give back to our schools. Sharing her time, talents, and funds, she wanted to make sure my teachers knew how much they were appreciated. Show your child’s school just how much you care with these 6 simple ways to give back to schools.
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6 Ways to Give Back to Schools
1. Volunteer your time: Sometimes the most valuable thing we can give is our time. Make it a weekly goal to volunteer 1 hour of your time to your school. This could include anything from supervising kids at recess to helping teachers make handouts.
2. Share your talents:聽Offer to share your passions with the teachers and students. Growing up, my mom came into my classroom each week to play the piano for our singing time.
3. Write thank you notes: Words of encouragement go a long way! Write thoughtful messages to your child’s teachers, principal, janitor, etc expressing your appreciation.
4. Get involved with extra curricular activities: Volunteer to help with the school musical, dance program, etc.
5. Bring treats: Bring treats to your child’s classroom (be sure to ask about the school’s guidelines for treats).
6. Donate money: One of my new favorite ways to financially give back to schools is through Schoola.
Schoola is an online gently used clothing store for toddlers, children, teens, women, and men. All clothing items are donated and $2 out of every $5 spent on Schoola goes directly back to school! Talk about an AWESOME way to save money while giving back to schools.
Being a mom on a budget, I can really appreciate Schoola’s incredible prices and quality clothing. With most of their items under $10, I can fashionably and inexpensively dress my entire family in brands like OshKosh, Gap, J Crew, etc while helping support schools. What could be better? Plus, look how cute my little man looks in his Schoola getup!
I try to volunteer at my daughter’s school as often as possible.
I really like companies that try to give back, I think it’s the way it should be. I give back to the school with time and talents, next year I’m hoping to be able to coach a color guard team for our band, we don’t have one right now.
Volunteering is a great way! School trips or even during lunch hours so teachers can get a break!
Giving back to schools is so important! I know I try to help whenever I can too!
I volunteer at my son’s achool and do BoxTops. This sounds like a great program as well.
We do a lot of volunteering for my daughter’s school. We donate a lot fo time and food!
great tips! i love giving to schools. it means more since you know it’s going to them and staying there.
Kids clothes can be so expensive!! What a great way to help schools, with all the budget cuts and funding problems they can use the extra help!
These a great ideas! I will have to look into schoola! It sounds like a wonderful way to give back to the school!
Giving back to schools is always important. I find that many parents like to volunteer.
These are all great ideas. I have also found that teachers LOVE when you can donate supplies if able.
What a great program. I try to give back to schools when I can.
I love working with Schoola. I set clothes aside all the time for them and ask for bags to fill. So super-easy 馃檪
I like to volunteer at our school. We have a great Breakfast for Learning program.
Schoola sounds pretty great. I’d love to help the school and buy clothes for the little ones at the same time.
Love that this is being talked about. I would love try more than one of the above.
I know volunteering is always needed in our classrooms. Though, as a Mother of children with metabolic conditions, I caution against bringing “treats”. I always feel bad when my kids mention they were left out of classroom treats because they are foods they can’t eat.
These are all great ideas! Our schools need our help more than ever now. Thanks so much for these suggestions.
I think it is really important to give back to schools. I had no idea about Schoola. I really like their extra credit week program that they are doing.
These are great tips! I actually did shop at Schoola this week, they have a great program.
Schoola is such an awesome idea! We are always looking for good ways to support our schools!
Writing thank-you notes is such a great idea, and something that you can do no matter how limited your time/money is. How often do we get a sincere thanks for what we do? I’m sure that would be very much appreciated.
We do the Boxtops at our school and plus, they are constantly having fundraisers. I mean constantly. I spend a fortune on candy bars, t-shirts, magazines, etc.
I think the bring treats, donate, and volunteer your time is such great ideas to give back to your local schools.
These are very good tips and it really does help them out a lot!
These are great ideas. I really like the Schoola program.