Buckeye Education Foundation

05/14/2026

Here is part two of the selected Poetry Showcase Honorees! We encourage you to read them, enjoy them, and drop a note of kudos.

The honorees will be invited to present their poems at the next public meeting of the BUSD School Board on May 20 at the BUSD District Office at 7 pm, and as always, the public is encouraged to attend! The honorees also receive gift certificates from The Bookhouse and from Steve's Pizza El Dorado Hills.

We couldn't offer this community-boosting event without the generous help of these sponsors: Steve's Pizza El Dorado Hills, The Bookhouse , and Friends of the El Dorado Hills Library. Thank you! Please let them know you appreciate their support if you visit them, or write them a note online.

05/14/2026

For National Poetry Month in April, the Buckeye Education Foundation offered its 6th Annual Poetry Showcase, open to submissions from all Buckeye district students. Thank you to all the entrants for taking your time to share your heartfelt, thoughtful, creative, and poignant entries with our Buckeye community! ALL of the entrants will get wonderful prizes, including display of your poem online in the showcase gallery, a personalized certificate, a Friends of the El Dorado Hills Library certificate for a free book from a used book sale, and more! Prizes will be distributed to all participants via their school classroom.

Thank you to our judges for taking on the difficult task of scoring each entry thoughtfully and fairly. This process has been completed, and we now have our top scorers list ready to announce! All of our BUSD poets should be proud of how they captured the theme of "Beauty All Around Us".

Over the next two posts, we will share the selected Poetry Showcase Honorees. We encourage you to read them, enjoy them, and drop a note of kudos!

04/29/2026

REMINDER: Tomorrow, Thursday, April 30 is the LAST DAY to enter the 2026 Buckeye Education Foundation Poetry Showcase!

All TK-8th grade students in the Buckeye Union School District are invited to submit a poem with the theme "Beauty All Around Us" and enter this free virtual showcase event. All students who enter receive a certificate and some fun small prizes, and a guest judge will select one outstanding poet in each grade level to win a "Poetry and Pizza Prize Pack".

See the Buckeye Education Foundation website for more details.

In the meantime, please enjoy some randomly selected poetry pulled from the 2026 Poetry Showcae!

03/09/2026

Proud to fund this and other projects through our Project Grant program. Funds are still available for the 2025-26 school year.

https://www.buckeyefoundation.org/grants

Thank you to the Buckeye Education Foundation for giving us equipment for our Home Ec class! Come "wok this way" to taste test!!!

02/12/2026

"I am so grateful for the Buckeye Education Foundation and all your support of our classrooms. Thank you for supporting my creativity as I find new ways to engage and excite my students to learn."

The Buckeye Education Foundation has pledged more than $10,000 in direct-to-teacher/staff project grants so far in the 2025-26 school year! We still have more funding to give. It's so easy to apply. If you are a BUSD teacher or staff with ideas to enhance the learning experience for your students that you can implement this school year, check out our grant process on our website.
https://www.buckeyefoundation.org/grants

These grants were made possible by generous donations of BUSD parents and community members, and we are so grateful for the support of all Buckeye students. We are Buckeye!

12/23/2025

Need some books to get you through Winter Break? Stop by the El Dorado Hills Library (closed December 25 & 26), and be sure to admire the Buckeye Education Foundation Art Showcase Honorees on display in the lobby, now through the end of the year! Honorees were also invited to present their artwork at the last District Board of Trustees meeting and receive their certificate in person.

If you miss the display at the library, the display will move to the BUSD District Office in January.

All the fabulous submissions can be viewed online!
https://www.buckeyefoundation.org/2025-art-gallery

05/14/2025

🍕Dine out Wednesday 5/14 to support Rolling Hills Middle School! 🍕

Hey RHMS families!! Join us for a delicious meal at Papa Murphy’s 🍕 while supporting our school community. This Wednesday, May 14th, 30% of all sales will be donated to Friends of Rolling Hills, when you bring the paper flyer or show it on your smartphone.

This event will run ALL day! Your support helps fund essential resources like Chromebooks, school supplies, and special programs for our students. So mark your calendars and bring your family to Dine Out for a good cause 🙌

05/10/2025

📣ANNOUNCING... POETRY SHOWCASE HONORS 🏆
More than 100 BUSD students in TK-8th grade submitted poetry to our 5th Annual Poetry Showcase. The theme this year was "Going Places", and all these young poets put their special spin on interpreting that theme. We are so proud of every BUSD poet who participated!

Thank you again to our esteemed judges who gave hours of their time to thoughtfully and fairly score each submitted poem. Thank you as well as to our sponsors. Without our generous sponsors, we would not be able to offer community-boosting events like this one.

Steve's Pizza El Dorado Hills
The Bookhouse
Friends of the El Dorado Hills Library

04/26/2025

Reminder: Buckeye Education Foundation's Poetry Showcase is accepting entries through Wednesday, April 30!

All students in the Buckeye Union School District are invited to participate. Our theme is "Going Places". All students in grades TK through 8th attending any Buckeye Union School District School are invited to enter this free virtual showcase event.

What does Going Places mean to you? We invite you to write about a place you’ve been, a place you want to go, near or far, real or imagined, literal or metaphorical. You could write about the journey, or about the destination. You can even write about packing for the trip. You might want to write about the place, or the experience or feelings you had or hope to feel there.

Learn more: https://www.buckeyefoundation.org/poetry-showcase-information

03/16/2025

🐄 Dine out on Wednesday, 3/19 to support Rolling Hills Middle School! 🐄

Wednesday's dine out is at Chick-Fil-A, and if you haven't tried their new pineapple dragonfruit lemonade...now's the time to do so!