🥳 Congrats to Mrs. Schwartz's math classes they are this months winner of the Chick-Fil-A Everyday Heroes Award presented by Baltimore Area Chick-Fil-A Restaurants! 🥳⁠ ⁠ At the Odyssey School, students learn four pillars: respect, hard work, honesty and kindness.⁠ ⁠ A couple of years ago, Lauren Schwartz, a math teacher, came up with an idea on how to combine teaching math and kindness. She called it "Math for a Cause".⁠ ⁠ "It's really a student-led project where for a month they bring in loose change and at the end of the month they get to decide where to donate the money to," she said.⁠ ⁠ Students went to great lengths to find spare change, from their family's cars to their parents' pockets.⁠ ⁠ They brought in their change and sorted them by value. In the end, the third grade math class brought in the most loose change, totaling $130.⁠ ⁠ "It was completely up to them how much money they brought in and they were super engaged in the project," said Schwartz. "[They] really understood...