NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - A sixth-grade middle school counselor is hoping to collect funds for supplies as she works to build teach students lessons in kindness.

Brittany Adamson spends some of her afterschool time at River Oaks Middle School promoting kindness with her students.

"Middle school is hard and it's just hard for everybody," Adamson says.

Her students came to her about a way they could help out

"They really wanted to promote some kindness and positivity around school to make it a better place for all students," she says. "I was like, 'I love that idea.' so I basically gave them the avenue to help their ideas."

That's how the "Kindness Krew" started. It's a group of middle school students who often get together during their afterschool hours with Adamson to create projects and discuss ways tobe kind in school, in the community, and throughout their lives.

"They are a kindness crew member, and they are known for that across the school," Adamson says about her students. "Even in the community, we've done some food drives."

An important thing Adamson wants to get across is that although she runs the program, all ideas come from her students themselves.

One of those projects her students are working on is the Tree of Gratitude.

"Students and staff will have the opportunity to write what they are grateful for and kindness acts and things like that and it will be able to be posted on the wall so that everyone will be able to see it as they come in," Adamson says.

Another project they are looking to accomplish soon is "Kindness Kupons."

"It's the Kindness Kupon, again totally their idea. This is going to be a whole schoolwide initiative in hopes that whenever you practice kindness and are caught being kind essentially it is something that they will want to continue doing," she says.

Once a month they will be able to cash in their Kindness Kupon punch card for snacks, fidgets and prizes.

Her project will fund supplies and materials for the Kindness Kupon campaign.

"Getting materials and things like that and just scheduling, things like that kind of make it a little bit hard for the Kindness Krew sometimes," Adamson says.

She wants to continue the Kindness Krew for years to come, hoping that this initiative will spark kindness in students' lives for good.

"At first they will want to be kind for their kindness coupons, but long term the kindness act will follow them forever," Adamson says.

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