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Hi, My name is Trish L.

Chris Multi, and I am going to go through a

Maria Servant Leadership Project presentation, which is to host a

book drive for the Turner Sixth Grade Academy, the school

that I will be teaching in in the phone.

We'll start with the project background.

When I first tour this excrete academy, I went through

the library and saw that a lot of the shelves

were pretty bare, and I think that that was very

disappointing. Not only is fruit for teachers but for the

students is well, too.

Walk through the library and see that they're just really

aren't a lot of books to choose from.

And we want to create a literacy rich environment for

our students.

And that's really difficult to do when there aren't a

lot of books for them to choose from to read

while they're at school.

So my first objective is to plan and implement the

book drive to acquire books books for the school's library.

And although they've been successful on this endeavor, once we

have successfully brought in books to liner shelves list in

the library, my second objective is to create a distribute

information to share with the community about the need for

books on not only Well, let's go to the community,

but also to my students to take home one of

the reasons that I really want to include the community.

And this is because in the Turner community, a lot

of people want to be involved in the student's education,

whether they have students in the district or have their

graduates or they're retired and they've had kids and grandkids

go through the schools.

I'm very blessed to work in a district where a

lot of the community is involved, regardless of whether they

have students that are currently in the schools or not.

So I thought it would be a really good idea

to include them in this as well.

So next we're going to talk about the project planning.

So the first thing that I'm gonna want to start

with is talking about the people that are going to

be involved in this project.

So first I would include my principal and make sure

that he's on board with me hosting a book drive.

I would also want to talk with the library and

to make sure that I'm not stepping on any toes.

You to see if she has any input on how

this could be a successful project.

Next, I would go to a staff meeting and addressed

my colleagues and discussed the idea of the book.

Dr. And I would want to explain to them that

this would become a type of deal where we break

it up into groups or teams.

If we want to call it, that s so we

would have the English language arts team.

We would have the math team, the science team, the

social studies team in the specialist team.

And the idea would be that each team works to

collect books.

So what I would do next is select kind of

a team lead from each of those groups.

And they would be in charge of making sure that

their team was collecting books, that they were counting the

books. Um, and they would be kind of that go

to person for everyone else on their team.

Ultimately, everybody would come to me if they have questions.

But my hope is that with having a team need

for each section, that would kind of help alleviate some

of the responsibilities that I would have for having this.

And it would also create more of a team work

environment which would hopefully help build a stronger, too, and

be amongst the colleagues.

Uh, so what we would do next is I would

want to have the team leads get together with me,

and we would create posters that we would put up

around school to kind of promote this.

Um And that way we could get the students excited

for this.

So that brings me to our tiling.

I would wanna have Ah, pretty strict timeline s so

that we could make sure everybody is on the same

page and that things are getting done in a timely

manner so that we can have this piece successful.

So a good example of that, for that would be

I would want to create the flyers that are going

to be distributed so I would create them on my

own, but then share it with the team to be

sent out to students to go home with her for

their families.

I would also want the team needs to help me

in creating posters that we would put up around the

school and those would need to be done about a

week and 1/2 to 2 weeks before so that we

could really promote this and get our students, like, really

excited about this.

Another saying that we would want to do is create

a bulletin board where we can kind of track the

five different teams.

Remember, we would have L.

A math, science, social studies and then specials teachers A

swell. And it's so I would want to put up

posters so that we could monitor our progress as we

go. The idea is for this to start, um, October

fit and run for three full weeks ending on October

23rd. At the end of each week, I would want

each team lead to count how many books they have

in their box that's gonna be outside their door so

that we can see who has the most.

And we would update the poster so that students could

see that every day when they came into school.

So for our budget and supplies, have this one's pretty

easy. There's really no budget.

Uh, there is no cost really involved with this.

All I would need access to as a printer so

that I could print the flyers and then distribute those

with students and then cardboard boxes to collect.

The books are janitorial.

Staff can provide those.

We have plenty of boxes at our school, so we

would just that those outside the classrooms and that's how

the teachers would collect their books.

I think that this would be really doable for our

staff just because there's really no cost involved and it

really shouldn't take a lot of time because we would

have everybody working together and does the staff worked together

to make this happen?

It would hopefully be a smooth run and we would

get books.

So next we're going to look at the project benefits,

and this is kind of a unique one because I

think that this actually benefits more than just the students.

Obviously, the main goal is to benefit the students and

give them the opportunity to read and have books in

their hands that they are interested in so that we

can create stronger readers.

I also think that this would benefit our school is

a hole and help build a stronger sense of community,

and the reason I feel that way is because if

we are working together to bring in books to our

school, my hope is that it kind of builds that

sense of belonging.

We are working together as a team.

We're trying to create a better place for our kids

and in hopes that we can bring everybody together.

So I think that this would have been more than

just the students would also benefit the staff.

As we work together, we get to know each other

more. We get toe, have fun as we encourage our

students to bring in books, we have that competition going.

Kids love competition.

They are working toward a reward of having extra P

E time at the following week and they love to

have fun in P E and play dodgeball and kickball.

And working toward that goal is going to encourage them

to want to bring in more books.

So we're benefiting the students in the sense that we're

hopefully bringing them together more.

But we're also putting books in their hands so that

they can read were benefiting the teachers because we are

working together, which is showing the students that will working

together, which is a win win for everybody.

I also think that this will really benefit the community.

I think that if the community were to see students

coming together like this and working hard to bring in

books for their school, that it would show the community

that our students care about their education as well, and

that our students have a need that they want met

and they are working to make that happen.

And I think that if the community sees the students

working towards something like that, it will encourage them to

want to participate more and making it happen.

So lastly, we're gonna look at the project assessment and

there's two things that I want to stop about here.

The 1st 1 is what could go wrong.

And the 2nd 1 is, how can I continue this

project to have it go on into the future and

also be the most beneficial for our students, community and

stuff. So we'll start with the tramps and Trey against,

and with this one, I want to evaluate the project,

and this is planning.

I'm planning on having this happened in October.

Um, but I want to think about if I had

already done this.

What I think would go well and one of the

things that I think would be a really great thing

with this project is the sense of community that it

would bring to our students and staff.

Uh, I think that this would be a very rewarding

project for our school to see that, Yes, We acknowledge

that there there are lack of books and I am

showing my students I care that they want these books

and I'm working with them to help them solve this

problem so that they can have those in the in

this school.

E think that also, um, some things that would go

really well with this project would be getting the community

involved and showing our stakeholders that here are the issues

that we have and here's what we're doing to help

make them go away and seeing how they can help

contribute to that would be really neat for the community

members as well as our students.

And I think that if they see that the community

is invested in their education, that that will help encourage

them to want to do better.

A swell some problems that I could see a rising

with us.

Um, there's a couple of them, and the biggest one,

I think, would be students who can't bring in books.

I know that there's gonna be kids who just can't

afford to bring in books to donate for this.

And I would want to find a way for them

to be able to contribute in different ways, whether that

be helping make posters or helping count the books, helping

sort them by genre, helping the library and put them

away or tagged them.

There's various ways that we could have students being involved,

so they feel like they're still a part of that

community, even if they can't contribute with a tangible item.

It's important to me that all students feel included in

this, whether they are able to bring in a book

or are just helping teachers.

And I think that both options would be good for

students to be able to feel like they're part of

our community as well.

And then to continue the project.

Um, I think it's important to get student and put

anti drip it to see how they felt the project

went, what things they would change if we have the

opportunity. What things they think what?

Well, or what they would maybe improve upon.

Uh, I also would like to talk with students and

Aspen. What books are you interested in?

Maybe giving them a scholastic catalogue and having them choose

books. And then take those books and share that link

with the community and getting it on social media so

that other people can contribute as well on.

And I think that if we were to get community

feedback as well on how they feel, they could best

serve our students that we could really find to miss

to make this be even more successful in future help

in future years.

And that concludes my project.

Thank you.

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