You've Been Stamped!

“You’ve got mail,” is one of today’s most pleasant phrase. Whether sent through “snail mail” or via email, those cards or notes we receive, especially from those we admire, can make your day.

This week ILC students were introduced to the Impact Learning Center’s own post office. Each student was designated their own mailbox. Reach into the mailbox and you will find a “You’ve Been Stamped” card. These “You’ve Been Stamped” cards promote youth to communicate positively with adults and peers both within and outside of the program. This may look like using phrases such as: “I really appreciate when you…” or “Something I notice and really appreciated about you is....”

Students have the opportunity to write to another ILC student or staff member, where it will be “delivered” their mail box on the “Overnight Delivery.” Above is a “You’ve Been Stamped” card written by Kerri, a sixth grader, to Miss Leslie, her Read Room teacher.

They also can write these cards to somebody that is outside of the Impact Learning Center. Some people the students brainstormed to write to were teachers, coaches, janitors, moms, dads, siblings, neighbors, grandparents and the list goes on and on. They can then deliver this notes to whoever they wrote them to.

Just as it is excited to receive mail, the students are finding it is fun to write them as well. It may take a first grader the same amount of time to write one “You’ve Been Stamped” card as it takes a seventh grader to write four. Either way, the students are learning the impact a “stamp” of encouragement can make on themselves and others.