Mrs. Snyder is an absolute ROCKSTAR!!! You can find her running around putting out fires all day long and still looking as calm as a cucumber!
A great big GO TEAM to our Extended Care supervisors! What an amazing group we have this year! You all get so involved with the kids and all are willing to go the extra mile to help out! I truly appreciate you all!
Thank you Ryker K for helping clean the floors after lunch in the cafeteria! What an awesome thing to do! We appreciated it so much!
Shoutout to Ms. Teet! Your kindness and positive energy creates such a welcoming classroom! Your students are so lucky to have you 🙂
Thank you Mrs. Schuckers for your kindness and flexibility!
I am so grateful for all of the support and encouragement all of the staff members have shown me. Being new to school was a little overwhelming but all of the staff members I work with have made my transition to Otsego very welcoming and fun! I am very thankful to be working with respectful and kind people who inspire me to be better each day <3
Thank you to Mrs. Burris for always supporting our students!
Thank you to Brayden Sutter and Liam Sweeney for helping carry some stools to the art room! It was so kind of you to volunteer to help!
Thank you Ripken Jeremy for walking younger students to class during
those first days of school!
Mrs. Feehan - Thank you so much for taking over the pop tabs this year! We appreciate you stepping up so we could keep the program going!
Shoutout to the rest of my 4th grade teaching team! They have been starting the year with positivity, teamwork, and a dedication to making strong connections with students at the start of the year.
The 4th grade students have been going out of their way to help their fellow classmates as well as their teachers!
Our building Intervention Specialist team is ON FIRE!!!!

Every single one of you--new to us and returning--are ROCKSTARS!!! Truly, how lucky are OUR STUDENTS?! How lucky are WE to work along side of you?! THE LUCKIEST!
Otsego Teachers thank you for being so caring!
Otsego Extended Care Mrs. R is so sweet! Thank you for making the students feel welcomed in the morning!
Thank you Mrs. Ludwig, Mrs. Warton and Mrs. Clayton for stepping up to organize Grandparent's Night!
Thank you to Ripken Jeremy for going out of his way and helping so many of our younger students find their classrooms during the first few days of school.
Shoutout to all of our amazing students and teachers! You all have been so kind, respectful, and caring!
Thank you to the PreK & Kindergarten teams and all the supporting staff that help make screenings go so smoothly! What a wonderful way to welcome new families to our district!
Shoutout to the second grade team for making me feel welcomed and super supportive!!
Otsego Extended Care you were loaded with students today and you are so awesome! Thank you for your super job!
"I'm One in a Million", so are you Mrs. Buchman! Thank you for the kind words! You make us SHINE!!
Mrs. Feehan shared kind words to a fellow teacher. Thank you for helping me to shine! You rock Mrs. Feehan!
Shoutout to all of the third graders who have helped their classmates with their Chromebooks. There is a lot to remember and we have had so many great helpers!
Mrs. Godosky is always willing to help anywhere she is needed without question. Thank you so much, it is much appreciated.
Shoutout to Mrs. Martinez! Thank you for everything you do to keep our technology running and always being a problem solver! We appreciate you!!!
Mrs. Helberg and Mrs. Norman -

You are the heartbeat of our building! You wear so many hats, juggle all the balls, and make it look easy (when we know it is NOT!)

THANK YOU!
Shout out to our OES staff members for making the start of the school year warm and welcoming for all of our students!! Here's to a great year!!!
Mrs. Vogel is doing a great job of creating a supportive community in her classroom and making sure all of her students feel welcome and comfortable!
Kase Green worked so hard on his iReady! I'm proud of his growth and the positive attitude gave toward a task that was not his favorite thing to do.
Thank you SO much to our custodial staff. Our building looks so great. We appreciate your hard work!
A HUGE 'Thank You' to Ms. Snyder and staff for bringing the YOU UPLIFT Kindness Wall to Otsego Elementary School!
Go OES!
Yes! There are no Sign-Ups and no Log-Ins required in order to participate, as we collect no data or information of any kind. The platform is currently being used by large and small school systems throughout the country in almost all 50 states, and it has passed 100% of all school privacy regulations to date.
Yes! You can have all messages sent to as many faculty email inboxes as you’d like for Approval, and we can change or add to this list at any time.
Yes! Many of our schools do this, because if your students take to it – then the messages can begin to overflow your school email inbox at times. Not only will a separate gmail account prevent this from happening, but you can also make it accessible to all faculty members if you choose to.
You can choose one of three ways to display your messages onto a facility TV monitor.
  1. HDMI CORD – Some schools will access their Kindness eWall on a laptop and run an HDMI cord to their TV monitor.
  2. CAST – Some schools will access their Kindness eWall via a tablet or device and will cast it to their TV monitor via a Chromecast or Apple TV device.
  3. SMART TV WITH INTERNET BROWSER – If your Smart TV has an Internet Browser (Samsungs), then you can place your Kindness eWall link in the browser and it will run from there.
Yes! You can edit the text of any message before Approving it. In addition, if you’d like to keep a message but would like to remove an included image… or if you’d like to keep an image and remove the text, then you can do this before Approving the message. Your Rotating Display will only display exactly what you choose to make visible.
You will have a back office ADMIN PANEL that will allow you to delete, edit, and approve messages (individually or in bulk).
You will have a back office ADMIN PANEL that will allow you to customize your colors, logo, title, and font size.
Upon your request, we can replace your current Anonymous Submission Form with a Form from your school’s email system (ex. Google Form). This makes messages come to you with the author’s email address included, and you simply COPY/PASTE the message onto your INSTANT POST Page in order to make it live.

(Note: Because messages are submitted through your school’s email system, the Character eWall collects no data or information – making it fall within all school privacy regulations.)
We can provide your Tech Team with a simple line of code that will allow them to embed your Rotating Display of Approved Messages onto your school website, so that they are visibly scrolling whenever anyone comes to your site.
The system is set to display the 100 most recently Approved messages, as older messages start falling out of the rotation in order to make room for the newer messages. However, we can increase or decrease this number to be whatever you’d like it to be.
Your subscription includes an unlimited number of messages and an unlimited number of displays for everyone in your school for the entire length of your subscription.
Yes and No. Your Character Wall is a web app, but it is not located in an App store. However, this link shows you how you can easily turn your Kindness Wall into an app for any android or apple device: Phone Web App Instructions
Phone App Install Feature
Currently, YouUplift does not have an app located in the App Store. However, the following link provides simple instructions on how to easily turn your Kindness eWall into a homepage app for any mobile device: Phone App Install Instructions
(Great tech assignment for students!)
Website Embed Feature
This feature provides your Tech Team with a simple line of code that would allow you to embed your Rotating Display of Positive Messages into your school website, so that visitors can instantly see your messages.
Social Media Share Feature
This feature places Social Media Share Buttons on your entire Kindness e-Wall webpage or just on your Rotating Display only – whichever you prefer.

Yes! There are no Sign-Ups and no Log-Ins required in order to participate, as we collect no data or information of any kind. The platform is currently being used by large and small school systems throughout the country in almost all 50 states, and it has passed 100% of all school privacy regulations to date.

Yes! You can have all messages sent to as many faculty email inboxes as you’d like for Approval, and we can change or add to this list at any time.

Yes! Many of our schools do this, because if your students take to it – then the messages can begin to overflow your school email inbox at times. Not only will a separate gmail account prevent this from happening, but you can also make it accessible to all faculty members if you choose to.

You can choose one of three ways to display your messages onto a facility TV monitor.
  1. HDMI CORD – Some schools will access their Kindness eWall on a laptop and run an HDMI cord to their TV monitor.
  2. CAST – Some schools will access their Kindness eWall via a tablet or device and will cast it to their TV monitor via a Chromecast or Apple TV device.
  3. SMART TV WITH INTERNET BROWSER – If your Smart TV has an Internet Browser, then you can place your Kindness eWall link in the browser and it will run from there.

Yes! You can edit the text of any message before Approving it. In addition, if you’d like to keep a message but would like to remove an included image… or if you’d like to keep an image and remove the text, then you can do this before Approving the message. Your Rotating Display will only display exactly what you choose to make visible.

You will have a back office ADMIN PANEL that will allow you to delete, edit, and approve messages (individually or in bulk).

You will have a back office ADMIN PANEL that will allow you to customize your colors, logo, title, and font size.

In it’s default setting, your school’s Kindness eWall uses an Anonymous Submission Form in order to comply with all school privacy regulations. Therefore, though you will be able to APPROVE all submitted content before it becomes visible, you will not know who the author of the message is.


HOWEVER, upon your request, we can include a SUBMISSION FORM LOGIN which would require users to enter their email / password in order to submit a message. This would allow you to APPROVE all submitted content before it becomes visible and will also provide you with the email address of each message’s author (whether you Approve it or not).

We can provide your Tech Team with a simple line of code that will allow them to embed your Rotating Display of Approved Messages onto your school website, so that they are visibly scrolling whenever anyone comes to your site.

The system is set to display the 100 most recently Approved messages, as older messages start falling out of the rotation in order to make room for the newer messages. However, we can increase or decrease this number to be whatever you’d like it to be.

Your subscription includes an unlimited number of messages and an unlimited number of displays for everyone in your school for the entire length of your subscription.

Yes and No. Your Kindness Wall is a web app, but it is not located in an App store. However, this link shows you how you can easily turn your Kindness Wall into an app for any android or apple device: Phone Web App Instructions