Giveaway - Make Today Better for a Teacher with Office Max
I am not a teacher. At least not in the traditional sense. I’m a Mommy - so, I do teach - but my responsibility lies mainly in my own home and doesn’t extend to shaping the minds of other little ones on a daily basis. A teacher’s job is tremendous - the responsibility is fantastic.
And they don’t do it for the money. They do it to make a difference. They do it because they love kids.
Did you know teachers spend an average of $1200 of their own money on classroom supplies each year? That’s $4 billion annually! That’s why OfficeMax joined with Adopt-A-Classroom to create “A Day Made Better“, a national cause event founded to erase teacher-funded classrooms. This year, “A Day Made Better” will take place on October 6th. 1,000 teachers will be surprised in their classrooms each with $1,000 worth of essential supplies from OfficeMax. That’s more than one million dollars donated to help teachers! Principals at needy schools have nominated the teachers for demonstrating dedication, innovation, and passion.
To pay-it-forward, OfficeMax and Mom It Forward have teamed up to create awareness about the issue of teacher-funded classrooms and to give you the opportunity to get involved and help a teacher in your community on behalf of the “A Day Made Better.” Here’s how:
Simply nominate a teacher of your choice to win this giveaway by following the entry requirements. Be sure to check out the prize and criteria!
Prize
One exceptional teacher will receive a ONE HUNDRED DOLLAR gift card to OfficeMax. This can go a long way when it comes to classroom supplies!
Criteria
This is a giveaway that is meant to be given away. What does that mean? You get to nominate a teacher by sharing why this person is exceptional and deserving of this giveaway. The best part, every story told helps raise awareness in an effort to erase teacher-funded classrooms. The winning teacher will be chosen based on the following criteria, so be sure to tell us why your teacher is most deserving:
- Dedication: does everything in his/her power to deliver the best possible education for his/her students.
- Innovation: thinks outside the box and engages his/her students through creative learning activities & programs.
- Passion: expresses a genuine passion for education and shares this enthusiasm in the classroom.
- Need: demonstrates a need for essential classroom supplies.
Entry Requirements
To enter your teacher, you have some options.
(Note: post a separate comment for each entry.)1. Leave a comment right there on this post with your teacher nomination. Please share their name, the city where they teach, the grade they teach and WHY they deserve to win.
OR
2. Nominate them through a blog post or on Whrrl.
Write a post on your blog.
- You can include photos, video, etc. but please stay under 400 words or 3 minutes.
- Please include these links: http://adaymadebetter.com or @adaymadebetter.
- Include a link to your post in the comments section.
OR
Create a story on Whrrl.com.
- Go to our custom Whrrl page for Office Max and A Day Made Better, click “Start A Story” and upload photos and text about why your teacher is most deserving.
- Be sure to include the #omx hashtag in the text of your story.
- Post a link to your Whrrl story in the comments section.
2. Post these messages on Facebook and/or Twitter.
(Note: Be sure to leave comments here with links to your messages.)- Teachers spend avg $1200 of own $$ on school supplies annually! Help erase teacher-funded classrooms. http://bit.ly/3VUNvC PLS RT #omx
- Nominate a teacher 2 win $100 in OfficeMax classroom supplies. Enter here: PUT YOUR POST URL HERE PLS RT #omx
- Join the “A Day Made Better” movement to end teacher-funded classrooms at http://bit.ly/UJ3LF #omx
More than 30 sites are participating in this campaign between now and Sunday, October 4. Visit http://momitforward.com for a list of all the giveaways! You may enter a different teacher on every site, but you may only win once!
Thanks so much for helping pay-it-forward to teachers in your community! Please join us on Tuesdays, September 22 and 29 from 9 to 11 pm ET for Girls Night Out (#gno) on Twitter if youíd like to meet the team behind the cause: @officemax, @adaymadebetter and @Adopt_Classroom. Hope to see you there!
Fine Print
Entries are due Sunday, October 4 by midnight PDT. No purchase necessary to enter. Winners will be selected by me based on the entry that in my opinion meets the above criteria. OfficeMax, Adopt-A-Classroom and Mom It Forward play no part in choosing the winner of this giveaway. OfficeMax, Adopt-A-Classroom, and Mom It Forward employees are ineligible to enter. In a spirit of fairness, my personal friends and family members are also ineligible. Entries that do not follow all of the entry requirements will not be considered. The winner will be notified and have 24 hours to confirm receipt of the email. If no response is received within 24 hours, another winner will be selected. Open to participants in the U.S. 18 years and older.Related posts:
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I’d nominate my sons’ teacher, Mrs. Burle
I nomminate my sons teacher ‘Mrs. Middour’, she is the best 3rd grade teacher!!!!
I could really use that gift card.
I nominate Kathryn Flynn. Kathryn is the mother of three, and in order to help offset the costs of sending three children to Catholic school, she took a position as a Kindergarten aide, and then was promoted to school librarian.
Kathryn spent the entire summer organizing the library, which was woefully neglected and completely out of order. Each shelf took hours to collate, and she spent money out of her own pocket to paint the walls and spruce up the room, because funding is so tight at the school.
Kathryn’s niece has Down Syndrome, and this affords Kathryn a unique and valuable vision in which to create an atmosphere that caters to the needs of all the children. She went to yard sales to purchase bright and cheery framed pictures, and makes a tremendous effort to help out children who have special needs by fostering an atmosphere of fun, inclusion, and warmth.
Kathryn has thought outside the box. When she first saw the library, it was a dark and dreary room, musty-smelling and neglected. Her enthusiasm for education has manifested itself in providing a library that is now a busy hub of the school, a place where kids want to go, instead of shying away from it.
I’d love to be able to present Kathryn with a check so she can buy whatever else she needs to help her continue her quest to make her little corner of the world a gem.
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I nominate my wife. She used to teach 9th grade math and now she teaches a houseful of toddler and preschool age children. She runs a wonderful daycare. She spends way more on supplies doing this than she did in her whole time teaching high school.
I nominate Sue Kauffman, she teaches first grade in Pryor Oklahoma. This is my third grandchild that has had her. She is a hard worker, very patient and has a sweet spirit with parents and children. Her gentle ways draw the best from her students and she works so diligently with those who have learning problems. A truly special lady, one of those teachers kids will remember long after they have grown.
My Mother-in-law deserves a nomination! She is one of the most caring teachers i have ever known. She works hard and puts in long extra hours to help each of her students reach their full potential. She teaches at HCA, in Elgin, IL, 2nd grade.
Joe Hays teaches in a high-poverty inner-city St. Louis, MO elementary school. Joe has named his students the Superstars and is teaching them to live up to that name. He has created a cool, colorful learning space for the kids, all with his own money. Get this: he even has to buy his own COPY paper!!! He is currently plastering the classroom walls with college/univ t-shirts and pennants to encourage his students to think about and work towards college, not something usually considered in their environment. Joe is a person who believes in people and their possibilities, and those Superstars are so blessed to have him as their teacher.
For more info on Joe, I have a blog entry about him and the Superstars: http://lonestarlifer.wordpress.com/2009/09/29/real-superstars/
Thanks so much for having this giveaway. I would so love to show those kids that there are folks out there who DO care about their future.
I also posted the three tweets on my Twitter page. http://twitter.com/lonestarlifer
Remember, Joe Hays!
Mrs. Jeanfreau, Dacula GA, Kindergarten She should win because she’s a wonderful, caring teacher!
I’d like to nominate Beth T. Beth teaches kindergarten in the room right beside me. This is her second year at our school.
Beth is the youngest teacher in our building.Her enthusiasm and dedication have helped bring have inspired many os the older teachers! Even with 2 young children at home, she often spends extra time at school “getting things done”. She and her husband are saving for a house so she doesn’t have the spare funds that many of us “old’ teachers can use to supplement our classroom. Our school funds are frozen this year so we have received NO money for supplies.
The gift card would be wonderful for her, I know that she would spend it wisely.
mj.coward[at]gmail.com
Tweet http://twitter.com/sumrthyme/status/4509097991
I would like to nominate my daughters 3rd grade teacher Mrs. Hendley. She is amazing with the kids. My daughter loves going to school every day and is thriving in her classroom. I love that she encourages early studying for tests, etc. She could really benefit from this gift.
Tweeted http://twitter.com/momof2dancers/status/4556916553 & http://twitter.com/momof2dancers/status/4513805172
http://www.facebook.com/posted.php?id=730736564&share_id=167083112577&comments=1#s167083112577
I nominate my old English teacher Mr. Ringle.
I am nominating my son’s teacher, Mrs. Kelly. She teaches in Apopka, Florida. I am nominating her because she always puts her children first and I know she could put this gift card to good use.
I nomiante Thomas Trettel who teaches in Washington PA teaching 10th grade. He is dedicated and motivated to Giving his students a good education as this is his number 1 priority. He’s been teaching some 30 years now to a profession he excels in!
Tweets:
http://twitter.com/electricisland/status/4597991199
http://twitter.com/electricisland/status/4598000417
http://twitter.com/electricisland/status/4598005968
electricisland(at)gmail.com
I nominate my mom. She is a kindergarten teacher in Concord, MI. My mom deserves to win this prize, because she truly cares about nurturing the development of early childhood. She believes that all students, regardless of background, can develop into students with goals and dreams. She works tirelessly to incorporate play and learning for her students. She was an inspiration for my twin sister and I, because now we both are teachers with classes of our own. Thank you for honoring teachers!
I would nominate Mrs Cisler from Martin Luther King Jr Elementary in Green bay, WI.
She was our sons Kindergarten teacher. He is now in 2nd grade and I know that our son would not be the outstanding student he is if it were not for this wonderful teacher.
Our son was Extremely shy and reserved when he started school and Mrs. Cisler knew how to nurture and care for our son and sive him the confidence to grow in to a young man that didn’t need to be reserved or shy.
He has had other great teachers along the way in pre-school and 1st & now 2nd grade but Mrs. Cisler was just the right person to make our child comfortable with school and all that it entails.
This woman has a genuine LOVE for her job that I greatly appeciate.
titletowntreasures(AT)yahoo(DOT)com
I would have to say my sons Kindergarten teacher,Mrs Schaey,Allentown pa
FOr dealing with all the 5yr olds&doing a great job!
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Kristel Hansen works as a science teacher at a jr high in West Valley City, Utah. This year she isn’t getting any help with science supplies, and not always lab supplies either. She buys those out of pocket.
In order to inspire her students, she presents one with a “Student of the Week” award…out of her own pocket also.
The school doesn’t have air conditioning, and it’s pretty hot in her classroom - upstairs with no windows. She buys them bottled water and Otter pops to help cool it down, and brings in her own swamp coolers and fans to make it cooler.
She also coaches soccer there, and spent $60 of her own money to repaint the soccer field since the school ran out.
She stays on her own time, unpaid, after school to help students with her homework and do soccer coaching.
I know this card would help her out so much - even if just for ink for the printers. They only get so many copies a year, and have to pay for anything over their allowance.
Tweets posted on http://twitter.com/treesandshrubs/
I nominate myself. I homeschool my 4 children. We stay very busy and I we go through tons of supplies. thanks for allowing me to enter.
Maybe because Mrs. T has a child with special needs at home, she is able to relate and care for her Kindergarten students with a love that is rarely seen in education. She embraces our children with special needs, behavioral challenges, and those children from very broken homes. When given new ideas as to how to serve her special needs students, she tries the ideas immediately and does not give up easily. She cries after school when talking about the needs of some of her students. You know that she is truly heartbroken for the homes that they have to go home to and how much injustice has been suffered in these 5 year olds short lives.
Mrs. T deserves recognition and awards for all the wonderful ways she has cared for and educated many needy children.
I nominate my sister Mel who works for FBISD. She goes out of her way to help students as well as teachers. She’s beloved in the teaching community and inspires everyone with her selflessness.
tweets:
http://twitter.com/speech_hero/status/4611351306
http://twitter.com/speech_hero/status/4611356353
http://twitter.com/speech_hero/status/4611361289
My post:
http://donna444444.blogspot.com/2009/09/day-made-better.html
My tweets:
http://twitter.com/donnak4/status/4621404499
http://twitter.com/donnak4/status/4621718488
http://twitter.com/donnak4/status/4621359291