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Excellence in Education Chair
The Delta Kappa Gamma Society International |
EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE The goals of the Educational Excellence Committee are to develop programs, projects, events, and activities which: 1. Empower women through leadership opportunities 2. Engage students and educators through programs and projects 3. Create community and global involvement. Our State’s Annie Webb Blanton Scholarship, Martha A. Schultz Doctoral Scholarship, Exemplary Service Award, and Rose of Recognition Award, all reflect the educational excellence goal of empowering women through leadership opportunities. We also support empowering women leaders when we contribute to the International Golden Gift/DKG Ignite and the DKG Educational Foundation. Our Alpha Chi Nevada State Membership Initiative #2, which requires each chapter to award a Nevada Apple grant, is an example of educational excellence. The Nevada Apple grant engages educators through their unique and creative contributions to their schools, classrooms, and students. When our chapters and state contribute to the World Fellowship Fund, the Emergency Fund, Schools for Africa, and International Speakers Fund, we are creating community and global involvement through educational excellence. In addition to the Nevada Apple grants each chapter awards, there are many other projects, programs, events, and activities our chapters have been involved in and have implemented to meet our educational excellence goals of empowering women leaders, engaging students and educators, and providing for community and global involvement. Let’s take a look!
Spring/Summer
Put together Teacher Appreciation baskets to be delivered to a few schools in your district, perhaps chosen by chapter members who are still teaching or have connections to teachers in certain schools. Chapter members could each donate items to include in the baskets. Consider placing a flyer or brochure about DKG in the basket with your chapter contact information for further questions or interest in membership. Purchase lilies or mums to be delivered to Senior Citizen Centers, Nursing Homes, and/or Veterans’ Hospitals for special occasions such as Mother’s Day, Memorial Day, Father’s Day, 4th of July, Veteran’s Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, … . EEC Project & Program Ideas for November *Assign a mentor to each new member, or create a mentor job/committee chair position. The mentor contacts the new member periodically just to check-in; to invite her to a DKG function; to offer a ride to a chapter meeting; to pair up on a DKG project; to sit together at a chapter meeting or program; to assist with technology; etc.
EEC Programs/Projects-of-the-Month Try these project ideas and fundraising idea in October! *Consider giving books to your local hospitals to send home with mothers and new babies. *Give student teacher baskets to new student teachers in your area schools. *For a fundraising idea: Check into Walmart’s Matching Funds Program; the See’s Candy and Yankee Candles Sales Programs with profit to organizations; and Panera Bread gift cards with DKG getting a percentage.
Try these two DKG program/project ideas in September!
*Hold your meeting in a school computer lab in order to teach every member how to surf the Society website (dkg.org). *Use a “bragging basket” to collect one dollar from each member who would like to take advantage of a bragging time during the meeting to share personal news or brag about the accomplishments of themselves or someone else. The money is donated at the end of the year to chapter scholarships or to a DKG Fund (DKGIEF).
Spotlight on Educational Excellence; Chapter Programs Highlighted: ALPHA CHAPTER: Donated $2000 toward playground equipment and $1000 toward the raised gardens built on the Lemmon Valley Elementary School campus; annual library work for the children’s reading room at the Reno Courthouse; donations to World Fellowship, Nevada Apple awarded GAMMA CHAPTER: Involved with Project 150, supporting homeless high school students; participated in Pinot’s Palette fundraiser to support the Nevada State Museum; adopted a member’s school to fund supplies and teacher requests; financed “Traveling Trunks” for CCSD schools; donations to Emergency Fund; Nevada Apple awarded DELTA CHAPTER: Student teacher scholarships awarded annually; new teacher mentorships at local schools; local school site visits and staff treat drop-offs; canned food drive donations for Food Closet; purses and toiletries donated to local domestic violence shelters; Christmas stockings, toys, and gift cards donated to Austin’s House; coloring books and crayons donated to local hospitals’ children’s wards; 200 - 300 summer reading book bags donated to area schools’ students-in-transition each year; donations to Emergency Fund and World Fellowship; Nevada Apple mini grants awarded EPSILON CHAPTER: Socks and underwear donated to low-income/at-risk students; participation in the Teach Project in conjunction with the University of Nevada – Las Vegas, providing scholarships to assist with tuition for low-income high school students attending UNLV, interested in becoming future teachers; donations to World Fellowship; Nevada Apple awarded THETA CHAPTER: Members put together and donate birthday goody bags for early childhood education special needs center; annual Arts & Crafts Fair fundraiser provides funds for mini grants up to $500 for any Washoe County School District employee needing monetary assistance for an activity directly benefitting students; donations to World Fellowship, Emergency Fund, and Schools for Africa; Nevada Apple awarded LAMBDA CHAPTER: Collects items/supplies for Eddy House in Reno, a local entity that helps homeless youth; provides a grant-in-aid for a beginning teacher; collects books for the Jan Evan’s Juvenile Center and the Washoe County Family Court; donations to World Fellowship and Emergency Fund; Nevada Apple awarded NU CHAPTER: Donated to Meals on Wheels; toiletries and cash donations to Advocates Against Domestic Violence; pajamas, robes, slippers, cash, and gift cards donated to Austin’s House; worked the Carson High School Craft Fair – selling Nevada flags and white elephant objects to raise money for scholarships and World Fellowship; joined in a Carson City community effort distributing funds, food, and gifts for Christmas from a local warehouse; donations to World Fellowship; Nevada Apple awarded XI CHAPTER: Provides backpacks and school supplies to Title 1 schools twice a year; ongoing community outreach project sorting and filling food boxes for the Northern Nevada Food Bank; American Girl Doll raffle raises money for the DKG Xi Chapter Enrichment Grant (now called the Nevada Apple) – which helps teachers facilitate student learning; donated socks to the Community Health Alliance Socktober Drive; donations to World Fellowship and Emergency Fund; Nevada Apple awarded OMICRON CHAPTER: Winnemucca Community Spelling Bee; donations to World Fellowship and Emergency Fund; Golden Apple awarded two times each year (fall & spring) **Omicron’s Golden Apple was the inspiration behind our State’s Nevada Apple!
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