Let's make a Christmas library miracle!

Howdy, friends! I'm asking for your help to create a Christmas library miracle for my students.

First, some context. I’m feeling super grateful for the chance to be a Vice Principal this year at Michelle Obama School in Richmond. It fills up my heart to work alongside such terrific students, families, and colleagues each day.

One of the systems we’ve put together to strengthen school culture is called “Tiger Tickets”. You can see them below. In short, we give ‘em out when kids are doing something aligned to our school’s core values. One of the “prizes” that students can buy with their Tiger Tickets is any book they want. And students are buying books. Lots of books. Including purchases for the “Dr. Hester library” — more on that in the video above — I’ve spent $3,937.27 since August 13th.

And that’s… not super sustainable without support from people I love. :-) So I’m reaching out to ask for your help.

Our goal is to raise $7,000. I recognize this is audacious! Two reasons for this goal: First, I've been spending about $1,000 per month, so this would hopefully get us to the end of the school year. Second, we have students in kinder through 6th grade, so this would enable us to have about $1,000 per grade level. And on the off chance that we exceed the goal, wonderful! We’ve got lots of ideas about how we could use additional funds to help cultivate a love of reading among our students.

Would you be willing to chip in a bit? If so, many thanks for helping us create what I hope will be a small, Christmas library miracle for our students.