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It’s the final sprint! Time for student leaders to Build Legacy by celebrating their accomplishments and leaving their mark on the 2011-2012 year. Graduating student leaders will pass down the Trade Secrets binder and Penny Harvest License to next year’s leadership. This is also the time to register your school for the following year, confirming your school's information and enlisting a co-coach. Alert your Penny Harvest School Support if you anticipate any changes in administration or scheduling at your school next year. If you are not going to be the Penny Harvest Coach next year work with your principal to appoint a successor. If you are moving schools, be sure to start the Penny Harvest at your new school. Ensure that all your hard work will plant the seeds for many harvests to come! Steps to Build Legacy:
Download the Introduction to Party and Plan section
senior legacy service project
Senior leaders have an opportunity to distinguish themselves and make sure they're remembered. Younger leaders learn from the older students and have something to shoot for when they take over. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RECOGNIZING STUDENTS AND GRANT RECIPIENTS
 To close out the year, it’s important to spread the word about all the good work Penny Harvest students have been doing. A Check Award Ceremony is a special way to recognize students and grant recipients. Be sure to communicate not only the final products of the Penny Harvest (grants to organizations and neighborhood service projects), but all the learning and community connections that came from gathering pennies, making funding decisions and planning and doing service.
Download the Letting Your Good Deeds Be Known section
In this section, you will find:
 REMINDER: Create an end-of-year bulletin board with the school’s harvest total, issues that were addressed and final grants and service projects. You can include letters of appreciation from grant recipients. See bulletin board examples TIP FROM THE FIELD: A Check Award Ceremony is a great way to remind the greater community what happened to all the pennies they collected. Invite all students, faculty, grantees, parents/families and community members, such as local officials. Read about how students at PS 116 Lead by Example and let their good deeds be known “When the grantee got on stage to accept the check, the kids were cheering so much the roar made my own son cry. It was an amazing feeling, the most high you could get…because that is when they saw where their pennies went.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LOOKING BACK, LOOKING AHEAD: REFLECTING AND PLANNING FOR NEXT YEAR
We learn not by doing or by thinking, but by thinking about what we are doing. Reflecting on the year helps leaders realize how they grew as young philanthropists and the impact they made on their community. They will also begin to understand that Penny Harvest Leader’s work is never done! They can plan ahead to make sure their Penny Harvest is even more successful next year.
Download the Looking Back, Looking Ahead section
In this section, you will find:
 REMINDER: Documenting the process of the year-long Penny Harvest is an effective way to have students reflect on what they have accomplished. Consider creating a Roundtable Memory book. TIP FROM THE FIELD: A great way to ensure that you maintain the year-to-year momentum of the Penny Harvest over the summer is to recruit some new leaders to pledge their commitment for the following year and have existing leaders write them letters of wisdom.
Read about how the PS 335 Student Leaders Pass on the Penny Pins
”I have been a Penny Harvest Leader on the roundtable since the fourth grade and it has encouraged me more and more. When I leave this year, I can’t be in the roundtable any more but I’ll still give and remember it in my heart.”
--- Daneyer M., Penny Harvest Leader, PS 398, Brooklyn |
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