Closed: Nominate A Teacher to Win $100 Office Max Gift Card for “A Day Made Better”

On behalf of the “A Day Made Better” cause for teachers, you can nominate your teacher to win a gift card to OfficeMax for school supplies!

I’m sure I don’t have to tell you how special and incredible teachers are – they inspire young minds and help open doors for future opportunities each day. My oldest is only in kindergarten, but since I have worked in education for the past decade, I have seen first hand how amazing teachers truly are!

School budgets are diminishing and teachers are left to supply many (if not all) of their classroom materials. According to the National Education Association, teachers are spending about $1000 each year on supplies for their class, which is pretty astonishing. Can you imagine if your job asked you to bring your own tape, scissors, and paper for your desk?

That’s why I was so excited to join the Max Moms for teachers program to help create awareness and give back to teachers. The Max Moms are working in collaboration with the national “A Day Made Better” cause founded by OfficeMax and nonprofit Adopt-A-Classroom to help erase teacher-funded classrooms. Annually in October, they host a national event that recognizes and rewards over 1000 teachers with a total of $1 million in school supplies to help alleviate the financial burden and thank them for their hard work.

You too can join in this cause and give back to a deserving teacher by nominating your favorite teacher to receive a $100 gift card for school supplies donated by OfficeMax.

Entry Requirements

1) For a chance to win, please leave a comment on this post that describes why the teacher you’d like to nominate is
1) Passionate;
2) Dedicated and
3) Innovative.

2) As an additional entry, you can visit the Welcome tab on OfficeMax’s Facebook page and post a comment here telling us what you think of their Facebook donation campaign benefiting Adopt-A-Classroom.

We look forward to your nominations and will announce the winner on October 5, 2010 –national “A Day Made Better” day for teachers!

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Terms & Disclosure: No purchase necessary to be eligible for a chance to enter or win. The winner will be selected randomly through http://random.org. The gift card was provided by OfficeMax as part of its cause for teachers. The views written here are my opinion.

-Melissa

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http://www.facebook.com/erinxduh Erin M.

Mrs. Walker is the most passionate, Dedicated and innovative teacher I know! It was always fun learning in her kindergarten class. (I STILL remember her lessons!) Whether playing old records of children’s songs to help us learn or doing special snacks to study the clouds, I just remember feeling like a family every day in class.

She would even do a nice quiet time after lunch if “we were good” (But I think it was really if we were too roudy!)
Mrs. Walker seriously changed the way I work with kids even today. She proved how dedicated she is by STILL continuing to be a teacher… 15 years later!
http://www.facebook.com/erinxduh Erin M.

LIKE and wrote on the OfficeMax Facebook wall! (Erin Mize)
http://www.facebook.com/officemax?v=app_4949752878#!/officemax?v=wall&story_fbid=439959305874&ref=mf
jamie

I nominated Mrs Kentner she a Kindergarten teacher and has taught both my kids and they both think the world of her. Even when we see her out of school she never ceases to stop and say hello to them. My son was having problems with learning and she worked with him and us after and before school on numerous times and he has had no issues this since then but he does remember all the help she gave him. She is truly special and one of a kind.
jamie

fan of Officemax on FB (jamiejudy)
G

I would like to nominate every teacher at Leander Middle School. We teach in a 55% economically disadvantaged school with a 19% special education population. We all spend money out of our pockets to feed our students, buy supplies, and pay for field trips. We are a title 1 school, but we are rated Exemplary in the state of Texas. This would be a great way to outreach to our school and help our teachers.
Casey

I would like to nominate my mom Patty. She is a special needs teacher for elementary school age kids. She mostly works with autistic children that need alot of TLC. I think she is amazing for the work that she does because only certain people have the heart and the patience for this job. She forms amazing bonds with these children and I’m sure most of them will remember her forever! My mom is one of those teachers that spends alot of money on her classroom. She actually works a second job as a bartender to help. Alot of her students, being special needs, need special learning tools that the school doesnt always provide. Last year she ran a craft/ bake sale to help raise money for extra learning supplies. The students made crafts and the parents helped bake goodies for the sale. This really helped them out alot!

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Casey

I “liked” Office Max on Facebook and I think that it’s amazing that they are donating a dollar for everyone that “likes” them. I know alot of teachers, and they are so dedicated to their students that they spend so much money trying to make their classrooms better. It’s nice to see a big company realizes this and helping out.
Steph

My sister is a teacher and she is 1) Passionate about helping kids learn in the best way they can and stay excited about learning, 2) Dedicated to being patient and helping kids as often as possible and 3) Innovative because she is creative about working with whatever she has to make it fun and interesting!
Nicole Greene

I would love to nominate an algebra teacher I had in 7th grade. He was awesome all the way around–super fun, made learning fun, made us believe in ourselves and he was funny as heck! He is/was:

Passionate: He was always in a good mood and happy—never seemed like it was a chore or job to him

Dedicated: I can never remember a day he was absent—he came to work every single day even when sickish!

Innovative: He was always jumping around to new grades to teach Algebra, Algebra II, Geometry, etc–he was always doing something new!

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