Houston Random Acts of Kindness Day (RAK Day) Founders, Treveia and David Dennis, in partnership with the Houston Independent School District (HISD), HISD Wraparound Services Department, and sponsoring business partner Yellowland Records, will reveal their first-ever student “RAK Room” on Monday, August 15, 2022, at 10:00am at Paul Revere Middle School (10502 Briar Forest Drive) in Houston!

The “RAK Rooms” are exciting, colorful, incentive-based school stores and resource rooms designed in collaboration with community partners to address the needs of children and reward good behavior! The rooms are designed to mirror a real store and students earn digital RAK Bucks/RAK Points for good behavior, attendance, anti-bullying, participation, and other accomplishments awarded by HISD teachers and staff, which can be used to purchase cool new items like shoes, clothing, bikes, scooters, games and more in the RAK Rooms!

Each RAK Room is being designed by renown Interior Designer and Craftsman Gino Vian and is sponsored by a local business in partnership with RAK Day to supply store inventory and whatever is needed for the room. Parkway Property Investments, LLC, a real estate investment trust company with offices in Houston and throughout the Sun Belt, was the first company to step up to partner on the RAK Room project, and Yellowland Records owners Twiler Portis and Jimmy Bolt will be the first local business partner to debut their Yellowland-inspired RAK Room August 15 at Paul Revere Middle School!

The RAK Room partners are also working with the Houston Independent School District’s Wraparound Services Department, which helps students and their families with community resources that address non-academic challenges that can impact children, to incorporate space in the RAK Rooms for Wraparound Specialists to connect children and families with resources like critical food, clothing, sundries, mental health support, housing assistance, and more for school families in need!

The RAK Room reveal at Paul Revere Middle School will mark the first of several HISD RAK Rooms planned for this school year! Additional RAK Rooms are currently in the works for Ashford and Daily Elementary Schools, along with several upcoming HISD campuses. To assist with Superintendent Millard House II’s vision for the new school year, students at selected HISD RISE (Redesign. Innovate. Support. Empower.) transformational campuses will also have the opportunity to benefit from upcoming RAK Rooms.

Additional RAK Room sponsors thus far include Houston Random Acts of Kindness Day Inc., Enstyle Boutique (Ivey Meys), ItsMooseCraft, Premium Goods, and HydePark Goods.