Troy Craughwell Students Filling Buckets With Positive Behaviors

Photo: Several Troy Craughwell Elementary School students have already collected 25 bucket-filler awards this school year for displaying positive behavior. For their rewards, they got to sign the school’s Bucket-Filler Mural and were given pencils and spirit sticks.

Back from left: Craughwell Guidance Counselor Maureen Mahalick, students Grant Fiegl, Seva Mindeman, Charly Jones, Kamden Beard and Principal Kathy Barker

Front from left: Tristan Martinez and Alexandra Koontz

Staff and students at Troy Craughwell Elementary School are all about being kind to others, and when they’re caught in the act of such positive behaviors, they get coupons to add to their buckets. Filling those buckets earns them rewards, such as pencils, spirit sticks for their backpacks and getting to sign a mural on the hallway.

“Our philosophy is that each of us has an invisible bucket,” Principal Kathy Barker explained. “When we show kindness to another person, we fill their bucket. When we disrespect another, we dip into their bucket.”

Barker said the idea is from the children’s book, “Have you Filled a Bucket Today?” by Carol McCloud.