TRAFLES Project Ideas
These are SAMPLE ideas ONLY. (Do what fits the needs of your school and chapter)
DISCLAIMER: This framework was modeled after the Texas and South Dakota State Chapters.
Teaching
- Big Brother/Big Sister
- Help teachers decorate their classroom, make copies, cut out projects, before school starts
- After school ends, help clean up classrooms to get ready for summer
- Teach a class
- Tutor students
- Help with bulletin boards
- Make testing week posters to motivate students
- Grade papers
- Sponsor CPR class
Recreation
- Movie nights
- Ice cream socials with all other CTSOs on campus
- Holiday parties
- Field days at feeder elementary schools
- Welcome party - adopt a new chapter and have a welcome party
- Special Olympics
- Wacky Olympics
- Ed Rising Tug-a-war
- Scavenger Hunt
- Lock in
- Kidnap breakfast - initiating new members in chapter
- Cell Phone Picture Scavenger Hunt
- Clue Party
- Ed Rising Day at Amusement Park
- Picnic
- Hayride
Appreciation
- Sponsor Teachers’ Night
- Remember teachers during holidays
- Teacher car wash
- “Warm fuzzies” in boxes
- Have a valet for a day (Ed Rising member is a valet for a teacher)
- Sponsor/Teacher Talent Show
- Honor retiring teachers
- Send “Welcome Back to School” Cards
- Help new teachers
- Help on workdays
- Provide goodies for teachers’ lounge
- Serve a full meal at lunch with delivery to room
- Help substitute teachers
- Sponsor teacher appreciation week
- Select Teacher of the Year/Month
- Recognition in daily announcements
- Breakfast, luncheon, or end of year banquet
- Secret pals
- Thank you notes
- Gifts—balloons, apples, carnations, pencils, pads of paper
- Honor teachers on their birthdays
Fundraising
- Kiss A Pig
- 7 & 8th Grade Dance
- Sponsor Dance
- Car Wash
- Car Bash
- Macho Contest
- Spaghetti Supper
- Recycling
- Garage Sale / Craft Sale
- Coke Stand
- Sponsor School Store
- Prom Fashion Show / Talent Show
- Dog Walk
- Lip Sync Contest
- Raffle
- Spirit Chain
- Concession Stand at games or school events
- Carnival
- Restaurant sponsored nights
- Banquet
- Marque Dedication - birthdays
- Take Pictures at Dance
- Pie in the Face
- Baby Sit - parents night out
- Spirit Items
- School Supplies
- School T-shirts
- School Mugs
- Candy
- Silk Flowers
- Mums for Homecoming
- Balloons Containing Gift
- Grams: Val-O-Grams, Bunny Gram, Spook-O- Gram, Summer Gram, Balloon-O-Gram or Grams for any holiday
- Christmas trees
- Big Pickle
- Fruit cups
- Cards
- Popcorn
- Cookie dough
- Bumper stickers
- Slushies
- Buttons - Can make if you have your own button maker
- Gift wrap
Leadership
- Create breakout session
- Enter competitions
- Do a professional development session for teachers
- Recruit for Ed Rising
- Attend leadership workshops
- Run for State Office
- Invite guest speakers
- Start “Supportive Friend” program
- Help start a Ed Rising Chapter in another school
- Hold banquet to honor outstanding members
- Hold Parliamentary Procedure Workshop
- Host area convention
- Host a EDRISINGPALOOZA (bootcamp)
- Create a local leadership training for student officers
- Host a book study on leadership
Educational Excellence
- Participate in college night
- Research and create a newsletter about hot topics in education
- Submit articles to the school newspaper
- Career day
- Sponsor a scholarship for a senior
- Organize “bring your parents to school day” or open house
- Invite speakers
- Research and provide scholarship information
- Serve as student teachers
- Sponsor a Book Fair
- Visit College Campuses
- Visit School Board Meetings
- Have Speakers from Educational Organizations
- Use an exchange student as a speaker
- Tutor adults in a literacy program
- Sponsor Education Fair
- Attend breakout sessions
- Anti-bully week
- Red ribbon week
- Visit classes of interest
- Booth at Mall about your school
- Interview school personnel
- Visit a Montessori school
- Camp read-a-lot (literacy night)
- Host Autism Awareness Month
- Kindergarten round-up
Service
- Park Clean Up
- Adopt-a-Something: park, highway, kid, senior citizen, area of campus, hallway
- Walk-a-thon
- Coat drives
- Canned food drives
- Volunteer at Hospital
- Auction for Charity
- Blood Drive
- Toys for tots
- Crime Watch
- Safety Watch on Halloween
- Easter Egg Hunt
- Caroling
- Senior Citizen Dance
- Habitat for Humanity
- Cut Grass for Senior Citizen
- Cleanup Campus
- Paint Trash Cans
- Volunteer at Day Care Center
- Collect for Needy: books, clothes, food
- Baby-Sit at Back to School Night
- Work at Special Olympics
- Shop/House Clean/Read for Elderly
- Visit a Children’s Hospital
- Food Baskets
- Build a bear - give away at children's hospital
- Wash fire trucks
- Meals to public servants
- Donations to homeless shelters
- Volunteer at homeless shelter
- Volunteer at an animal shelter
- Angel tree/adopt a family
- Shoebox Christmas
- Donate water to firefighters when there are grass fires
- Collecting supplies for disaster relief
- Penny drives
