November 2015 - dayforessay.com

Get Ready for Giving Tuesday

Abby Feuer15Views 0Likes 0CommentsNovember 30, 2015

Tomorrow is Giving Tuesday , a global celebration of giving back! As a teacher, you can harness the momentum of this special day to benefit your students, classroom, and community. Guide your students through gratitude activities Harvard professor Francesca Gino studies what she calls the “gratitude effect”. Giving or receiving a…

Our Top 15 Thank-You Notes of 2015

Emilia Murphy17Views 0Likes 0CommentsNovember 25, 2015

We want to share the love with you! One of the best parts of working at 99Papers.org is seeing the thank-you notes that students write to donors who help their classrooms. Below are just a few of our favorites from this year. (Hold onto your hat; this gets very adorable, very quickly.) 15. Objects in thank-yous are larger than…

#ForEveryKid

Hannah19Views 0Likes 0CommentsNovember 24, 2015

Did you know that one billion people today are living with disabilities? That’s one in every seven people. The world doesn’t always perfectly accommodate everyone’s unique abilities, which is why we’re so impressed by our public school teachers across the U.S. who use 99Papers.org to acquire materials that enable them to support all learners. …

How We Leverage Gratitude to Drive a Business Model

Julia Prieto14Views 0Likes 0CommentsNovember 24, 2015

Madison wants to see the moon, and her note was one of a half-million that we processed last year.PLUS: Our Top 15 Student Thank You Notes of 2015 You might already know how 99Papers.org got its start. In 2000, almost a decade before “crowdfunding” became a buzzword, Charles Best, a high school teacher at…

Support for Greater Kansas City Classrooms

Kirk Smiley17Views 0Likes 0CommentsNovember 17, 2015

We’re excited to announce a new partnership with the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, an organization that knows a quality education is necessary to create self-sufficient citizens and a vibrant society. Thanks to the Foundation, classroom projects in Greater Kansas City schools will be eligible for a half-off match offer. To qualify for this match offer, projects…

The Words That Define Our Teachers (According to 4,500 of Them!)

Emilia Murphy13Views 0Likes 0CommentsNovember 9, 2015

When we wanted to figure out what characteristics best describe the teachers who use our site, we went straight to the source. In our teacher newsletter, we included a one-question survey: What are three words you would use to describe yourself as a 99Papers.org teacher? An overwhelming number of insightful responses (from 4,574 educators!) came in, and below is a…