CLIFTON PARK -- Jayden Fogarty is a bucket filler. He knows what it means to fill someone's bucket with kind words and generous gestures instead of being a bucket dipper, someone who is mean and a ...

FORT BENNING, Ga. - They give hugs. They collect donations. They smile at people. Those are some of the simple ideas behind being a bucket filler, said Linda Turner, the counselor at Loyd Elementary ...

Helping a classmate pick up a dropped pile of books. Giving a few words of encouragement before a test. Holding the door open for a teacher. These acts of kindness and others receive special ...

“Have you filled a bucket today?” That’s the question students at Roosevelt Elementary School were recently asked. Carol McCloud’s book, Have You Filled a Bucket Today? introduces the idea that ...

RAVENA-COEYMANS-SELKIRK — These days, when so many children live in homes where one or more often two parents work, socialization and character building gets added to the list of concepts teachers and ...

According to "The Bucket Man" Merrill Lundgren, the message about filling people's buckets by saying or doing nice things, is more important than ever during these tough economic times. The Genoa ...

Lincoln Elementary School students and staff celebrate grand-prize winner, fourth grader Drew Beebe (front and center in the photo), whose drawing graces the school’s “Fill the Bucket” t-shirts.

Embracing Our Differences recently coordinated a one-day virtual readalong with “Bucket Fillers” books involving 8,200 students in 455 pre-kindergarten through third-grade classes in Sarasota and ...

If you love to share the joy of reading with young people, Embracing Our Differences hopes you will volunteer for its “Bucket Fillers” reading initiative, which will take place on Nov. 15 at 80 ...

Sadie, a trained reading dog, visited small group counseling classes recently at Westwood Elementary to help students learn about filling buckets. Figuratively, of course. Using the book, Have You ...