Episode Details

Tim Brooks:
I had a line that probably went 30 yards of kids waiting to just buy this one record from one little crate.

David Sherwood:
It's like he got me into records and got my whole family involved.

Tim Brooks:
They are highly sought after commerce because of things like this. Because of some of these other binders you see here like the coins. These are all things that kids can buy only with Positive Paws.

Anthony Godfrey:
Hello and welcome to the Supercast. I'm your host Superintendent Anthony Godfrey It is a fun way to recognize and reward good deeds at West Hills Middle School and it has become a big hit.

On this episode of the Supercast find out why a local vinyl record shop has established a presence with a “Pop Up” shop inside West Hills Middle School, creating a nostalgic vibe and rewarding students for positive behavior.

We're here with David Sherwood now to talk about your involvement with this store to help motivate students. Thanks for joining us.

David Sherwood:
It's good to be here. We've been longtime supporters and we're so excited to be here today.

Anthony Godfrey:
I think it's so cool that you're doing this now. I have been out. I have purchased records from you.

David Sherwood:
I know that you look familiar

Anthony Godfrey:
There are some 12-inch 80s singles that I was pretty excited to get at some of those Daybreak sales. It's amazing to me the collection of records that I found as I was crate digging. Going through those boxes and boxes of records.

David Sherwood:
I feel like there's something for everybody if you dig deep enough.

Anthony Godfrey:
There is, there absolutely is. Tell me about how you got involved and how you and the broader vinyl-loving community have been a part of this.

David Sherwood:
So I've been collecting records since I was a teenager, back before it was cool. But now, the past four years, have been doing this as a business. So during the pandemic, I was a travel agent and the pandemic just kind of wrecked us. So we're like, we need to do something to make money. We started selling records and the way we got involved in all this is my mom is actually a first-grade teacher in your school district.

Anthony Godfrey:
Wow, where does she teach?

David Sherwood:
Ridge View Elementary. She's a first-grade teacher.

Anthony Godfrey:
That's awesome

David Sherwood:
Linda Sherwood.

Anthony Godfrey:
That's our K-3 school now that just has those four grades.

David Sherwood:
And so the thing that got us started though was my mom actually a couple of years ago went through cancer. While going through this our group of record collectors rallied behind it and they wanted to do something to give back to the community. So it started with– we partnered with Primary Children's. We decided to donate and do some fundraisers for Primary Children's and then that evolved into we had extra records. We met Tim and he's like, you know, we've started this store in our school, it would be fun to put those records up for the kids. So that's kind of how all that came about.

Anthony Godfrey:
I love that. It's really exciting that the record-loving community and it's a great community. I've been part of a record-loving community for a very long time. But just the fact that you pulled other people from outside of the school that want to help and want to support and want