Igniting School-Community Partnerships Across Arizona

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Love Our Schools Day

Love Our Schools Day

Love Our Schools Day is a project-based volunteer opportunity for you to make a difference at a local school – whether it is planting a garden, painting a classroom, or fixing up a playground!

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Change Starts With Us

Every child should have the connections and resources to thrive, but often children are disconnected and face life’s challenges alone. Together, we can be a village of support—connecting children to a brighter future.

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65,000 annual volunteer hours

$1.3 million dollars of volunteer service to school communities

12,484 computers donated

“You can be 5 and change the world, you can be 16 and change the world, 20 – any age you can change the world.”

4th Grade Student
Mountain View School

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Teacher retention in one K-8 school increased from 35% to 93%

Increased kindergarten reading scores 39% in K-8 AZ school

10,000 teacher care packages donated in 2020

Increased scores in math for students in one AZ elementary school: 20% of 4th graders, 19% of 5th graders, and 47% of 6th graders

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Doing this alone is impossible; it takes all of us working together to make a difference.

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The Future Is Bright

We asked these kids about their hopes and dreams. Their vibrant answers remind us that the future is in good hands when we empower children to become the leaders they were born to be. Help us build a village of support around every school so that EVERY CHILD is connected to their full potential!

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“Whether we are working with Tracey and her team to overcome the digital divide in the community, handing out laptops, textbooks, digital hot spots, school supplies, or simply giving a hot cup of coffee to a teacher on a Monday morning to make their week a little bit easier, we feel truly blessed to be able to help.”

Bryan Kuster

“When you engage with School Connect, you engage with an entire community. It’s business partnerships, it’s families, it’s schools - it’s everybody coming together to make life better for our students.”

Nedda Shafir

“To see their faces when we showed up to help distribute lunches and different things, is priceless! Find it in your heart – I know it’s already there. Let’s go and serve those schools, let’s go and partner, let’s go and make sure our kids are taken care of.”

Jerome Parker

“I think there are a lot of people who want to help out in public schools, they just simply don’t know how. And so, School Connect has the framework and the model to be able to do that and bring people together.”

Dr. Cort Monroe

“It’s a tremendous asset to Arizona and to Arizona school districts, and it’s a service that has been needed for a very long time…because all of these groups are working toward the same goals but working parallel instead of in collaboration. So, it’s a tremendous organization that is bringing us all together and accomplishing great things.”

Natalie Orne

When the costumes get put away....

Who helps our kids see the courage they have without the cape?
The creativity that goes beyond the costume?
The gifts they haven’t quite discovered yet?

That’s where the village comes in!

A teacher notices that the quiet student has something important to say.
A business owner introduces a teenager to work they never knew existed.
A neighbor keeps showing up until a child begins to believe, “Maybe I really do matter.”

Sometimes someone else sees a possibility in us before we can see it ourselves.

Our kids are watching how we see one another, too.

There is plenty competing for our attention. Plenty inviting us to make quick judgments about people we haven’t sat down with or stories we haven’t heard. But around a school, we have an opportunity to practice something different.

We can pull up a chair.
Ask a better question.
Listen to someone whose experience is different from our own.
Find something we can do together for the children we all care about.

What might our kids learn about who they can become by watching whom we choose to be?

This Halloween, enjoy the costumes, the big imaginations, and the very serious explanations of everyone’s special powers!

But when the costumes are put away, let’s keep noticing the potential that’s already there…

A gift worth encouraging.
A voice worth hearing.
A future worth investing in.

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When the costumes get put away.... Who helps our kids see the courage they have without the cape? The creativity that goes beyond the costume? The gifts they haven’t quite discovered yet? That’s where the village comes in! A teacher notices that the quiet student has something important to say. A business owner introduces a teenager to work they never knew existed. A neighbor keeps showing up until a child begins to believe, “Maybe I really do matter.” Sometimes someone else sees a possibility in us before we can see it ourselves. Our kids are watching how we see one another, too. There is plenty competing for our attention. Plenty inviting us to make quick judgments about people we haven’t sat down with or stories we haven’t heard. But around a school, we have an opportunity to practice something different. We can pull up a chair. Ask a better question. Listen to someone whose experience is different from our own. Find something we can do together for the children we all care about. What might our kids learn about who they can become by watching whom we choose to be? This Halloween, enjoy the costumes, the big imaginations, and the very serious explanations of everyone’s special powers! But when the costumes are put away, let’s keep noticing the potential that’s already there… A gift worth encouraging. A voice worth hearing. A future worth investing in.

If you`ve finished up your Love Our Schools Day projects, don`t forget this important step...

CELEBRATION 🥳

See what Shea Duryea has to say about celebrating well with your community.

Still want to get involved? Learn more about volunteer opportunities coming up in November and January at LoveOurSchoolsDay.come/Events

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If you've finished up your Love Our Schools Day projects, don't forget this important step... CELEBRATION 🥳 See what Shea Duryea has to say about celebrating well with your community. Still want to get involved? Learn more about volunteer opportunities coming up in November and January at LoveOurSchoolsDay.come/Events