COLLABORATIVE FUNDRAISING
As an author, I would love to provide my Tabula Rasa © storybooks to teachers:
As a fun class project:
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Please feel free to download my humble storybooks, print, and use in your classroom as best suits you, FREE OF COST;
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(I would simply ask that you sign up as a “member” of the website, and agree to not sell the storybooks without compensation for the copyrighted works, explained in the “collaborative fundraiser” section below).
As a collaborative fundraising effort:
Teachers and students are able to co-design the artwork of their class Tabula Rasa © storybooks, and to then sell as a fundraiser to support their class (supplies, class trips, etc.) or other community service projects.
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The Cover Page of the storybooks include a large blank space for teachers to post a class photo, and a line to paste "All Artwork Created by...."
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The inside page is set aside for teachers to write an introduction and letter to the reader explaining the project and Service-Learning efforts.
Teachers and parents have the freedom to choose the sales price of their classroom storybooks. Once again, after becoming a “member”, please feel free to download my humble storybooks, print, and use in your classroom as best suits you, FREE OF COST.
If you choose to use these storybooks as a platform for fundraising (and I hope that it provides an effective, authentic fundraising method to support your class) I would simply ask that you agree to follow the "Membership Agreement":
As an example, if you have a class trip and know the amount of funds you need to raise, you could promote that in your efforts:
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Ms. Jones’s Class Trip: $1,500 needed to be raised.
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Ms. Jones’s Class Storybook sales price: $25 per storybook (+ shipping).
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($9.95 per book + shipping is paid for publishing, printing, and shipping to the school).
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Total storybooks to sell: 100 storybooks x $15 profit per storybook = $1,500.
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Entire Class Trip Paid For.
Along with being a wonderful classroom exercise in collaboration, creativity, and contribution, the storybooks themselves carry positive messages.
The entire process can be implemented as a Service-Learning experience in which each student learns the value of team-work, contributes to a group cause, and learns the underlying messages of the storybooks, which include:
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Conflict resolution;
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Communication skills; and,
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Having the confidence to speak up for one’s self.
I look forward to working with you, learning from you, and supporting your needed efforts as you guide our children. A humble teacher and parent,
Robert Kyle Buckley
(Teacher, Social Studies, 6th - 12th grades)
