Jonas Brothers Kick Off 'A Day Made Better'

Earlier this week, the Jonas Brothers showed their continued support for teachers and students by helping to kick off the annual 'A Day Made Better' campaign with our national sponsor, OfficeMax. They surprised the entire teaching staff of Los Feliz Charter School for the Arts in Los Angeles with $25,000 worth of school supplies from OfficeMax on behalf of the cause campaign. Check out the video above and the details in the press release here!

In 2007, Adopt-A-Classroom and OfficeMax created the 'A Day Made Better' campaign to bring awareness to the issue of teachers paying money out of their own pockets, anywhere between $600-$1,000 annually, to make up for inadequate classroom supplies. Teaching is already challenging, but not having enough classroom supplies and resources makes it even tougher. So our idea was to take one day out of the year, the first Tuesday of October, to recognize our exceptional teachers and reward them with $1,000 worth of school supplies to help ease the burden.

This year's event is coming up on Tuesday, October 5th, and it will be our fourth year surprising 1,000 teachers each with $1,000 worth of school supplies across 800 cities across the country, including Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Denver, Des Moines, Kansas City, Orlando, Phoenix, Minneapolis, and even in Puerto Rico!

In honor of this day, if you would like to support a teacher by providing a classroom grant, please make a donation at www.AdoptAClassroom.org.

Find us at the NYSSBA Convention ~ Oct 21-24

Coming up in October is the New York State School Boards Association's annual convention in New York City (October 21-24). Adopt-A-Classroom will be hosting a panel session titled "Engaging Your Community to Support Teachers and Raise Classroom Funds" on Saturday, October 23rd at 1:00pm. If you are attending the convention, please drop by to say hello - our Executive Director, James Rosenberg, will be moderating the panel session.

Adopt-A-Classroom was also selected as the Community Project at the NYSSBA convention. We will be on the trade show floor on Friday and Saturday at the NYSSBA Services Booth. Attendees will have the opportunity to adopt classrooms and learn more about how the program can help with school fundraising in districts across New York state.

The convention is held at the Sheraton Hotel, just north of Times Square! Depending on whether you like the hustle and bustle, this could be a plus or minus. However, when we attended last year's convention, we found it entertaining to be in the middle of the mix...

THE TEACHER SHOW on Martha Stewart

Tomorrow's edition of The Martha Stewart Show will celebrate teachers and highlight the joy of learning. Food writer and cooking teacher Nick Malgieri will share baking techniques; FIT professor Kenneth D. King will demonstrate how to make DIY fashion accessories; Jones New York stylist Lloyd Boston will provide tips for how to upgrade your wardrobe.

AND!... *All teachers in the studio will have their classrooms adopted by our national sponsor, Jones New York In The Classroom!*

Be sure to check out the show tomorrow, Wednesday, September 22nd on the Hallmark Channel. Here's a preview: http://www.marthastewart.com/show/the-martha-stewart-show/the-teacher-show

'Like' OfficeMax on Facebook and They'll Donate $1 to Adopt-A-Classroom

*Attention Facebook Users*

Today through October 5th, for each 'Like' on OfficeMax receives on their Facebook page, OfficeMax will donate $1 to Adopt-A-Classroom! Go to www.facebook.com/officemax!

Adopt-A-Classroom is also partnering with OfficeMax once again on the 3rd annual A Day Made Better event and it's coming in exactly two weeks on Tuesday, October 5th. That means we'll be surprising 1,000 teachers in 1,000 schools across the country each with $1,000 worth ofclassroom supplies! Surprise celebrities are showing up at a few of these schools... stay tuned here and on our Twitter for the details :)

Genji's "A Special Roll For A Special Cause" at Whole Foods

If you've been to a Whole Foods market then you've most likely seen the neatly stocked sushi bar managed by Genji Sushi. Each month, Genji hosts a campaign called "A Special Roll For A Special Cause." In August, the program featured The National Wildlife Foundation. This month, the program will benefit Adopt-A-Classroom!

Now through Sunday, October 3rd, 5% of sales of the special roll will be donated to Adopt-A-Classroom. So if you buy sushi from the Genji sushi bar at Whole Foods this month, thank you for helping to support our cause! We use funds like these to help us expand our reach to more schools across the country so that we're able to help secure more teacher grants and school donations.

Here are some great pictures of the program taken in-store at a Whole Foods market. If you take any of your own pictures with the promotional signs in a Whole Foods and would like to have it added to this blog post, just send them over to us at WeSupportTeachers [at] gmail . com.