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Quannah Chasinghorse is a model and activist from the Lakota and Navajo tribes. Her traditional face tattoo is tied to the cultural identity of her tribe. The marks represents milestones or rites of passage.
Sharice Davids is one of the first Native American women elected to Congress,. She is from the Ho-Chunk tribe.
Cheri Madsen is a Paralympic wheelchair racing athlete. She is from the Omaha-Ponca tribe.
In 2002, John Herrington became the first member of a Native American tribe to fly in space. He is from the Chickasaw tribe.
Award-winning artist Lauren Good Day is famous for intertwining old traditions with modern culture. She is part of the
Arikara, Hidatsa, Blackfeet, Plains Cree tribes.
Actor Jason Mamoa is Native Hawaiian on his father’s side. He also identifies as Pawnee, from his grandmother’s side.
Joy Harjo is an internationally renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. She served three terms as the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States.
Creed Humphrey is the current center for the Kansas City Chiefs in the NFL. He is part of the Potawatomi Nation.
There are 574 officially recognized Native American tribes within in the United States. Each has a unique culture and way of life. This also includes 154 native languages spoken today.
Congratulations to the Cobb EMC Patriotism Essay Contest Winners: Owen Tak, Farrah Aguilar,Alexa Zimmerer, Resse Dowalgo, Madison Bowen, Hunter Dame
Way to show kindness to a classmate, TOMMY HARRELL!
Great job in Guidance, MRS. NEISWENDER'S CLASS!
Thank you to PTA for the fabulous Fall Festival!
Great job, 4th GRADE, on your wax museums!
We love our school psychologist, Nicole Kaiser! Happy National School Psychologist Week!
Great job, JACOB BENEDICT, for being responsible!
Thank you for helping a friend, TITUS PRATT!
MS. CUYLER - Thank you for being a great math teacher! Crosby Donghia
Thank you Dr. Taylor for your amazing start of this school year!!
Brooklyn Allen- You showed kindness to Valen when you let her be the Door Helper!

Think you Piper for being such a great friend to me. You're always so kind. I'm thankful that you're always so nice to everyone!
Something thoughtful about my friend is she's very helpful, nice, and understanding. She's helpful because when I'm struggling with schoolwork she helps me, she's nice because she's always giving me compliments, and she's understanding because I can talk to her about anything!
Thank you to Piper Lang for being an amazing friend and having an amazing spirit!
Thank you, Amelia, for being kind and being a good friend!
Thank you, KATELYN ALLEN, for being the best helper!
I'm so proud of the PE coaches who are facilitating the technology course. Way to go! Suzy Lolley
Great job, JACOB BENEDICT, for doing all his work!
Thank you to APRIL LEONARD for being a great friend!
5th Grade Russom Ambassadors!
4th Grade Russom Ambassadors!
2nd Grade Russom Ambassadors!
3rd Grade Russom Ambassadors!
Kindergarten and 1st grade Russom Ambassadors!
Thank you, MS.KING, for all the positivity and enthusiasm that you bring to Russom each day!
Thank you, PTA, for the wonderful lunch!
Great job, MS. SHUBERT, for organizing a fabulous STEM night!
Great job, ZOEY BURNSIDE, for being respectful!
Thank you to the “HANGRY HELPERS” of MS. JONES’ and MS. HENDEL’S class for keeping us from getting “hangry!” Great Job!
Did you know... HISPANIC refers to a person with ancestry from a country whose primary language is Spanish. LATINO/A refers to a person with origins from anywhere in Latin America (Mexico, South and Central America) and the Caribbean.
STEVE JOBS, co-founder of Apple Inc., had dyslexia and was told he would go nowhere in life. Undeterred, he used his strategy of viewing words as images to develop the iPhone.
Thank you, AVA BILLS, for helping Ms. Pitts!
Great Job to MS. SHELTON'S class for following rules in guidance!
Dr. Temple Grandin - one of the first autistic people to document the insights she gained from her personal experience of autism. She is a professor of Animal Sciences at Colorado State University, an author, and austism advocate.
“I am different, not less.” - Dr. Temple Grandin
Welcome back, LISA WRAY!
Asia consists of over 50 countries and has an area of 17 million square miles. That's 30% of the Earth’s habitable surface!
How many states can you name?
Can you name the 12 countries of South America?
“Politeness costs nothing and gains everything.” - British Author Lady Montague
Thank you to ETHEN and ISAAC for using good manners and being respecful! Way to go for using the three R's!!
Be Kind - You never know what someone is going through.

Did you know that Russom families come from many different countries outside the United States? They include: Brazil, Africa, Mexico, Venezuela, Peru, India, Colombia, Haiti, Palestine, Vietnam, Guatemala, Ecuador, Canada, China, Korea.
It's not our disabilities, it's our abilities that count.
- Chris Burke, Actor and Down Syndrome Advocate
If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours!
Good manners and kindness are always in fashion.
Every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration. - Margaret Chase Smith
EVERYDAY KINDNESS: Even small acts can make a big impact!
How will you impact someone's life today?
“The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying.”
Thank you to BENJAMIN WARARI for being very helpful to Mrs. Pitts in the computer lab!
Congratulations to AJ Combs, Russom Elementary Character Education Winner for 2022-2023!
“Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.” – Stephen Covey
Thank you, Veterans!
Be kind to others and treat them they way you would want to be treated. We all need a little kindness!
Positive Mindsets are important for success. Be an Optimist!
Thank you to Mr. Cedric for your kindness and caring for our building and our students!
Great job to CHARIS and CARSON for using excellent communication skills!
HONESTY - Truthfulness and sincerity; free from deception
PUNCTUALITY - Being on time for attendance and tasks
PERSEVERANCE - Working hard without giving up
GENEROSITY - Unselfish willingness to give and share your time and talents in your community
FAIRNESS - Correct, proper, and reasonable treatment of behavior
COURTESY - polite, civil, and courteous behavior towards others in words and action
SCHOOL PRIDE - Playing a contributing role in maintaining and improving all aspects of a school's environment
PATRIOTISM - Love of one’s country
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 (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.
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