To students of Mercer, keep up the great work and be you!! GO TIGERS!
Mr. Engler always encourages the students to be the best version of themselves.
Mrs. Brown is a rock star! She's fun, very intelligent, and competent. Her classroom is engaging and well-managed. She's a super staff member of Mercer School. We love Mrs. Brown!!
Mr. Behnke, thank you for always supporting the Mercer School! From providing lunch to the staff, to hosting fundraisers, to coming to different events, it is all so greatly appreciated!
Thank you Mr. Wynn for providing such important lessons to our students. The way you provide instruction to our students is invaluable.
Thank you to Mr. H, Mr. Wynn, Ms. Engler, Ms. Karpan, and all the middle and high school teachers for showing up every day and helping our students! You are rock stars!
Emma B. is beautiful, inside and out!
In honor of senior, Bryelle Persons, your smile, your kindness and your love of life make my days coming to school just a little bit easier. Thank you for your hugs each day as they make my day even better. I will truly miss you after you graduate, and good luck to you in all you do! Karpen
Anya is always friendly to chat with.
Thank you to Levi and Max, who show up during the lunch period in my classroom and sing to me! I appreciate you!
Adam, thank you for keeping our building clean and safe. You have done so much plowing this year and it is greatly appreciated! Thank you!,
Emma's kindness spreads to others because she always takes the time to ask how they are doing and genuinely listens to their answers.
Mikayla, you are doing amazing work with your student! You genuinely care about your student, and it shows! You are a fantastic addition to the Mercer Tiger family!
Gabby is a hard-working student with a wonderful heart! Thank you Gabby for being so kind. Your creative writing is fun to read. Keep up the good work!
As Mrs. Benzel's last year of teaching slowly approaches, I just want to say that you are a wonderful teacher, person and friend. I will never forget one of my first days teaching here and you presented me with a little gift, which was a necklace, homemade by you. I felt welcomed and blessed to have such a sincere, kind colleague. Thank you for being you. Sandy Karpen
Mrs. Powers and Mrs. Brown, Thank you for helping me with technology issues I have while doing testing with the students!
I'm so proud of my second and third graders for working so well as a team!
I love that you are communicating so well and listening to each other's ideas. Way to go!
Claire is a very caring friend. She does a great job being mindful of others and their feelings. She makes sure others are included and is a good friend! Keep up the good work, Claire!
Thanks to Mrs. Engler for organizing the science club's trip to Yellowstone!
Stella demonstrates responsibility, respect and a positive attitude in her classes. Excellent job, Stella!
Thank you to Miss Duensing! She works hard to build character in our little ones and introduce them to the world of words and numbers! It's wonderful to see her interact with Mercer children in such an uplifting manner.
Mrs. Engler, thank you for always showing that you care about the students. You make sure they feel heard and take time out of your day to get to know each of them. You are a leader in the building, and you are a great role model not only for students, but for staff and the community at large.
Mr. Jahnke has really enhanced our students' learning and is an exceptional colleague in teaming on student projects!
Aiden, thanks for helping the 7th graders out with their math work!
Jazzy is such an asset to the school! She is fabulous with the babies. We loving entrusting her to our child's care.
Ryder is a great friend when he listens to others' stories and remembers to say something nice about their interests! Ms. Holly
Katherine always makes me smile! She has a great attitude!
Julie and Elaina are amazing to have in the office. They go above and beyond to help everyone and to help the school run so well!
Mrs. Benzel is irreplaceable! Her impact over her many years at Mercer are felt by the whole community.
Mrs. Powers, your kindness and compassion for staff and students does not go unnoticed. You show love through your consistency and patience with students. When you have conversations with staff, you show you care through asking questions and learning more about them. We are so lucky to have you!
All the students at Mercer are so welcoming of new students!
Ms. Julie always goes above and beyond to help keep our school running smoothly! Thank you, Julie!
Maddie has a wonderful smile!
Ms. Holly's classroom has some amazing sharers!
Ryder makes his friends feel better when they are sad!
Forest is polite to all students and teachers!
Deklyn shares with his friends!
Levlynn makes nice drawings for her friends and teachers!
Thank you to Sonny for saying hi and chatting with me every morning at school!
Shoutout to Mr Kussard and his team for always helping teachers out and for keeping the whole school clean and safe!
Mercer High School provides a tremendous variety of opportunities for student exploration and growth. Thank you to our administration, teachers, staff, and coaches for creating or seeking out these opportunities and supporting our kids in the process.
Sarah Rossi is an amazing teacher and fun co-worker!
HUGE SHOUTOUT TO COACH ROBYN SHOENEMAN FOR BEING THE KINDNESS EXAMPLE WE ALL NEED!!!!


GO TIGERS!!!
We give a shoutout to ALL the students! Whenever Be Kind Be Nice is in the building or Megan is at a school function, she is greeting with warmth and friendship!

Shoutout to the kindest person I know: Holly Duensing!
Thanks to Grant and Royce for holding the door for everyone in the morning. Small acts of kindness like this make our school a special place.
Thank you to all the high school kids who make the elementary students feel special and cool!
Mr. Engler is invaluable. I love what he teaches our students and the way he inspires them to get out of their comfort zone and try something new.
Amy Ciriacks: the job you have done with your 7th graders is a job well done. I probably can't measure the progress as well as their other classes because so much of what we do is project-based, but I credit what I see to your hard work. Thanks for being a colleague.
Our students are so lucky to have Mr. Griffin as an art teacher!
Maya is friendly to all her classmates!
Ms. Nancy, you always make sure we are well-fed and make us delicious food.
Claire sees the positive side in any situation and encourages others to do the same. Keep being a good role model, Claire!
Eureka has the best imagination and her art skills are phenomenal!
A HUGE 'Thank You' to Mrs. McMurray and staff for bringing the YOU UPLIFT Kindness Wall to Mercer School District!
Go Tigers!
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