This week’s Michigan Lottery Excellence in Education winner is Jonathan Stolle from Howell High School.
Q: You go above and beyond because you write a note, a handwritten note, to every student on their birthday.
A: I just try to find ways to celebrate kids and make sure when they come to school they’ve got a reason to be happy, and I just try to have someone to be there to believe in them, right? And so I think, like, that’s the takeaway and when I reflect on like why educators were so important in my life, those are the people that believed in me even when I didn’t believe in myself.
Jonathan from Howell High School receives a $2,000 check from Jake Harris with the Michigan Lottery. Excellence in Education Awards, sponsored by the Michigan Lottery, providing more than $28 billion to public education since 1972.