Meet the Teachers: Simple Modern Crowns 2025 Stock Your School Winners

More than 100,000 nationwide voters selected the 10 winning teachers and schools. Simple Modern will clear these teachers’ Classroom Wish Lists, send water bottles to their students and tote bags to their teachers and send a $1,000 grant to each school for a schoolwide improvement project.

Simple Modern is proud to announce the 10 winners of its second annual Stock Your School campaign — an initiative created to celebrate and support teachers across the nation through classroom funding and school-wide gifting as a part of the company’s mission to exist to give generously.

After more than 100,000 votes across more than 3,200 nominations of teachers in all 50 states, here is the 2025 class of Stock Your School honorees:

2025 Stock Your School winners

Megan Anglin, kindergarten-2nd grade music teacher at Helena Elementary School in Helena, Alabama
Christina Beverage, fifth grade teacher at Highland Park Elementary School in Stillwater, Oklahoma
Michelle Boyles, Kindergarten teacher at Hepburn-Lycoming Primary School in Cogan Station, Pennsylvania
Kayli Bullard, Pre-K teacher at Arbor Grove Elementary School in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Morgan Ellison, Kindergarten teacher at Liberty Elementary School in Franklin, Tennessee
Brianna Jennings, ninth-12th teacher at Carl Albert High School in Midwest City, Oklahoma
Maria Pizarro, fourth grade teacher at Lake Shipp Elementary in Winter Haven, Florida
Kaci Richardson, 6-8 ELA teacher at New Hope Elementary School in Fairfield, Illinois
Jamie Swigert, kindergarten teacher at Coshocton Elementary in Coshocton, Ohio
Madison Vander Lind, first grade teacher at George Washington Elementary in Kingsport, Tennessee

Each of the 10 winning teachers and their schools will receive:

• Fully funded Classroom Wish Lists (up to $500 per teacher)

• 500 Summit 22-Ounce Water Bottles for students at each school

• 100 Harper Tote Bags for teachers and staff

• $1,000 School Grant to support any school-wide improvement project

“Supporting education and educators is one of our core giving pillars at Simple Modern,” said Mike Beckham, Simple Modern co-founder and CEO. “Stock Your School is more than a giveaway — it’s a celebration of the teachers who go above and beyond for their students every day. We’re thrilled to highlight so many teachers and see their communities rally in support of them during this campaign, and we’re honored to champion the important work happening in classrooms nationwide.”

Stock Your School is part of Simple Modern’s larger and ongoing mission to exist to give generously. During the last 10 years, the company has partnered with more than 1,000 nonprofits and donated more than $10 million to those partners. Simple Modern’s giving focuses on five giving pillars, with education being one of them. To learn more about Simple Modern’s giving pillars and giving, read the 2024 Community Impact Report and its Why We Exist page.