With these funds I will... 

I would like to continue changing the dynamic between principal and student at my school.  Throughout the month, I enjoy giving the young men at my school books as rewards for demonstrating good character and/or for exhibiting the school values of leadership, brotherhood and scholarship. What started with a small group of boys has now tremendously grown in interest. Mr. Green's Book club is now a sought after reward. The recipients of any of the book I give have 1 month to read the book and write a brief summary. Students then have a lunch with me (food of their choosing from a local restaurant) where they we do a book chat and celebrate their original act, which earned them the book, and the fact that on top of their school work, they read an additional book and wrote a summary. The boys then have the choice to give the book to a teammate for them to read and the process can repeat with the original reader joining in on the lunch and adding to the discussion. I plan to purchase no fewer than 30 different books with the funds raised.

As a principal of an all boys school, is has been somewhat difficult to build a culture of wanting to read, but I am happy to say that culture is changing every day. Your donation will help the young men at KIPP Polaris Academy for Boys continue to see reading as a reward rather than a punishment.

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