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- Hill
Middle School, Novato, California
- Atascadero
Junior High School, Atascadero, California and Monarch Elementary
School, Los Osos, California
- Advent
Day School, Birmingham, Alabama
- Park
West High School, New York, New York
Hall's Cross
Elementary School
Aberdeen, MD
Jackie
McDonald's fourth grade class chose a reading project to embody
the pay it forward spirit. Students from this class each picked
a Dr. Seuss book, buddied up with a first grader, and practiced
their oral reading skills. Then with the help of an Instructional
Assistant, each student made a recording of his or her book on tape.
The books on tape were then donated to families, primary grade classes,
and libraries that could benefit from samples of fluent reading.
Thank you to Ms. McDonald's and her class for their Pay it Forward
contribution!
Read More Jackie McDonald of Hall's
Cross Elementary >>>
Read Letters from Hall Cross
Students >>>
Roosevelt
Elementary
Park Ridge, Illinois
The Non-Academic Goal Committee will use the pay it forward theme
as part of their school wide Respect and Responsibility program.
Their committee has made Pay it Forward kites for all of the classrooms
and many of the special areas (PE, Art, Music, Spanish, Library,
Social Worker, etc.). Each kite has the words "Pay it Forward"
on it and each triangle on the tail has a student's name on it.
As the students "pay it forward" to others, they write
the good deed and the other child's mane on one side of their triangle.
Students will write about their project as a curriculum tie-in.
Unitah Elementary
School
Salt Lake City, UT
On the last Friday of each month, this third grade class visits
"Our House," a day-care center for disadvantaged
youth, and throws a birthday party with presents and treats for
each of the children who had a birthday that month. Pay it Forward
provided the funds for the presents.
Havre de
Grace Elementary
Havre de Grace, MD
Third grade students at this school are setting up a recycling
program in their school and then taking it out into the community.
Pay it Forward provided the funds to set up the program with recycling
bins. This project ties into their environmental curriculum.
Jim C. Bailey
Middle School
Pensacola, Florida
Deana Mobley and 153 seventh grade students from this school
implemented the pay it forward idea by writing special books for
people. Their books contained creatively written and illustrated
personal stories, were adorned with ornate covers and included a
dedication page for the reciepient. A special "Pay it Forward"
page at the end of the book explained the concept and asked the
reciepient to "Pay it Forward" to three other people.
The students then bundled their books into decorated gift bags and
distributed them as Christmas presents.
Roy
W. Loudon Elementary School
Bakersfield, California
Floyd Martin's combination 5th and 6th grade class invited Catherine
Ryan Hyde to visit their school to discuss the writing of her novel,
Pay It Forward, and talk about various ways they can create their
own pay it forward projects. One idea the children had was to increase
awareness of the need for more pet adoptions. The visit was simultaneously
broadcast to the rest of the school on closed circuit cable TV.
The local CBS affiliate, KBAK, interviewed some of the students,
who then appeared on the evening news.
Tamalpais
High School 
Mill Valley, California
David Tarpinian's freshman English students read Pay It Forward and in conjunction with their social studies class wrote essays
and discussed their ideas for paying it forward. The novel is currently
before the school board for inclusion in the English curriculum.
Advent
Day School
Birmingham, Alabama
These primary school students wrote to the author with their ideas
for paying it forward.
James
H. Vernon School
East Norwich, New York
Mr. Siegelman's third grade class wrote letters to the author depicting
their ideas, and enacted a national letter-writing campaign to influential
educators and legislators promoting the pay it forward concept.
Santa
Barbara Community Foundation
Santa Barbara, California
This foundation has invited all Santa Barbara County schools (K-8)
to develop their own pay it forward projects. The first fifteen
schools to respond will be awarded a cash endowment.
Main
School
Santa Barbara, CA
Santa Barbara Community Foundation
Leslie Gravitz's
fourth grade class received one of the fifteen $1000 grants that
are part of the Care-and-Share program sponsored by the Santa Barbara
Community Foundation. Gravitz's class used its grant to pair up
with Carpinteria Senior Citizens Inc. on a joint poetry project
called "Bridging the Generations Through Poetry". Students
and seniors met at a get acquainted tea and then paired up to work
on different poetry projects. Perie Longo, poet and longtime participant
in the California Poetry in the Schools program, led the groups
in a session of writing poetry collectively. They choose three themes:
If You Walked Into My Heart; What Matters and Old Things; and Remembrance.
Gravitz and a corps of volunteers typed the final poems, gathered
photos from the sessions and put the results on laminated posters,
which are displayed in the storefront windows of Carpinteria businesses.
In May the students will put their poems into books. At a farewell
tea the students will read the poetry with their writing partners.
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