Secretary’s Assistant for half a day, including breakfast;

Assistant chef in the school cafeteria for a day;

3. Is lunchtime your student’s favorite class? Give your student an experience they’ll never forget: the opportunity to assist their school’s head chef for a day. Students will get a behind-the-scenes look at how and why their school lunches are chose, and also get their hands dirty by helping prepare and serve them! 

PE coach’s assistant for half a day, including lunch;

4. Is your student a natural-born athlete? Is he or she the first to organize a kickball game at recess? Give your star player the chance to be the Physical Education Coach’s Assistant for half a day! Including lunch, your student will follow in the footsteps of your school’s coach: helping out in gym class, managing locker rooms, organizing gym equipment, etc. Workout clothes, required!

Night out with your favorite teacher;

5. Teachers are people, too! Give your student the chance to get to know how cool his/her favorite teacher is, outside the classroom. “A night out” can be anything from pizza and mini-golf, to seeing a movie, to going to a local sporting event!  

Lunch provided for one week, personally delivered to the cafeteria by your favorite teacher;

6. What’s better than ordering lunch from the person that orders you to do homework? One lucky student will be served their choice of lunch, brought every day for a week to the school cafeteria by their favorite teacher.  

Family fun pack discount admissions to all school activities;

7. This item affords one lucky family discount admissions to an assortment of school activities! Activities could include: sporting events, graduations, plays, science fairs, concerts, pot-luck dinners, etc.

Reserved parking spot for a family for the school year;

8. Does your school have limited parking space? Take the stress out of daily drop-offs and pick-ups with reserved parking for a year! The winner of this items will be designated a prime parking spot reserved solely for the use of their family. You’ll be the envy Caravans everywhere!

Front row seats at your school’s holiday concert;

9. Is your student a musical genius, but you can’t quite hear their brilliant sonatas from the back row of the school auditorium? This item will afford you prime, front-row seating at your school’s holiday concert where you’ll enjoy unobstructed listening & views of all the pageantry of the season.

Front row seats at your school’s graduation;

10. Graduation ceremonies are too special to be sitting in the nosebleeds! Enjoy front-row seating at your student’s graduation and watch him/her obtain their diploma, up-close-and-personally!

School spirit wear basket;

11. Show your school spirit by donning the latest t-shirts, hats, sweatpants, and jacket within this Spiritwear basket!

Your student gets to make daily announcements for one week;

12. “Move over, Diane Sawyer!” The lucky winner of this item will take over the role of your school’s Morning Announcer for a one-week period. Let your student be the one to ‘break all the cool school news!

Private sports lessons from the school coach for a week, etc.

13. Crave some extra pointers about soccer, basketball, or gymnastics? The lucky student awarded this item will receive private lessons from the school coach – in the sport of their choice - for a period of one week. Imagine: your own personal trainer! 

Pizza Party for your class

14. Treat your student’s class to one, lunchtime pizza party. 

Ice-cream social for your class

15. We all scream for ice cream! Treat your student’s class to an ice-cream social!

Take a limo to school!

16. The big, orange school bus will never be the same after your student is whisked off to school in a limousine! S/he will feel like a million bucks when s/he and three friends are picked up in the morning and driven to school via limousine.  

One-time Library book late-fee waiver

17. Coughing up cash for library late fees? Not a chance! This item will entitle you student to one “opportunity” to be free from incurring overdue book fees.

Class picnic

18. Embrace the good weather and treat your class to an outdoor, lunchtime picnic!

Free class pictures for your student

19. It’s a fall right-of-passage: the yearly school photo. The winner of this item will enjoy a free photo-package from your school photographer.

Choose your locker

20. What could be better than choosing a locker in an ideal location? The lucky student who is awarded this item will be granted the privilege of selecting the locker of their choice for an entire year.

Extra recess time for your class

21. Entitle your favorite student to an elongated recess during the school day! This item will afford one lucky class an extra 15 minutes of recess.

Cafeteria carte blanche

22. The recipient of this item will be entitled to one “carte blanche” lunch in the school cafeteria: any items from the hot lunch & a la carte menu… for free!

Adopt-A-Book  

23. Adopting a book for your School Library is the perfect way to remember a loved one, honor a student, recognize a teacher, or celebrate a special occasion! By donating to the Adopt-A-Book fund, you are providing for the purchase of a book, to be selected by your school’s librarian.

Fund-a-Need  

24. Fund-A-Need gives donors the opportunity to make every classroom a teaching conference room. Help us equip a classroom with projectors, electronic whiteboards, DVD players and other essential tools of 21st century teaching. These Smart Classroom systems are a long-term investment in the school and will engage our kids for years to come.

Friday, April 10, 2009 at 7:35AM

UBBT Alumni Brian Williams is Doing the Work of a Master Teacher

From Tom Callos: Brian started studying with me when he was, I think, about 4 years old. He was a dedicated little son-of-a-gun right from the beginning --and now, 20 some odd years later, he^s proving that the martial arts are, indeed, about something more than the kick, punch, and choke.  Click to read more ...

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Randy Edwards and His Pursuit of 50,000 Acts of Kindness

Friday, April 10, 2009 at 7:11AM

 

Randy Edwards, UBBT Alumni Walk the Talk.

50,000 Acts of Kindness in April

FAYETTEVILLE, Arkansas, April 13, 2009 – As Chief Instructor of Impact Martial Arts of Fayetteville, Master Randy Edwards knows how to punch and kick. After all, he has been teaching Martial Arts in Fayetteville for over 25 years now. But now he’s teaching a different kind of self-defense...kindness.  Click to read more ...

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