International Dot Day is a daily celebration for Amy Vessel, co-chair of the Children's Choices Program, and professor at Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, Louisiana. In April 2019, Ruston was the site of an F3 tornado. Many businesses, homes, and part of Louisiana Tech was destroyed, but luckily none of the academic buildings were damaged. The storms were able to bring the community closer than before, through support and finding ways to work together. After being determined to improve what they lost, their elementary program was named 4th in the nation by the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ), and their TEAM Model Full-Year Residency Program had been published on American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE)’s blog. The university is determined to make multiple dots and marks to help their community across Louisiana!

For International Dot Day 2019, Jola Czajka from Stargard Poland had her students mark their dots with creating multiple collaborative portraits and drawings! Check out how they celebrated their dots from a collaborative tree to a giant emoji worm.

Students at Oakhurst Cooperative Preschool in Decatur, Georgia discover making their own marks is easy, on International Dot Day 2019. With Tamara Albright, Communications Chairman, the students used watercolor paints to splash their own colorful dots into their own masterpieces. Check out this video of the process the children did to create their marks!

On International Dot Day 2019, students at the Leśne Skrzaty Preschool in Poland strutted the runway in their own dot fashion show! The 4-year-old children, or “gummy bears” were able to decorate themselves in their own dots. The preschoolers participate in multiple international celebrations to help learn English naturally. The bears modeled their new fashion lines to their fellow peers. The show was divided between the girls fashion, and boy fashion. Watch these future fashionistas show off their dots!