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Penny Harvest Seattle
It’s the final sprint and almost time for graduating student leaders to pass the torch – or penny pins – to next year’s leadership. First, it’s important for students to celebrate and reflect to reinforce their learning and to set even higher goals for next year! As students party and plan, they should invite others to celebrate their accomplishments by letting their good deeds be known. The end of the year is also the time to alert your Penny Harvest Office 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 (we hope you are!), work with your principal to appoint and train 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!
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
LETTING YOUR GOOD DEEDS BE KNOWN:
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.” |
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