by Alison Risso | Jul 30, 2020 | Stories from the field, Teacher Appreciation
Tori Delaney manages the K-5 summer programs for DC Public Schools. At the beginning of March, Tori had the 5-week program all prepped and ready to launch. Her teachers were trained. Her facilities were booked. Her students were registered. “Everybody else looks...
by Alison Risso | May 29, 2020 | Stories from the field, Teacher Appreciation
When he was a kid, Sean Splawski didn’t like school. He didn’t like sitting in desks, he didn’t like filling out worksheets, and he struggled to learn and pay attention when teachers lectured for too long. Some called him “hyperactive.” So it came as a surprise to...
by Alison Risso | May 29, 2020 | Stories from the field, Teacher Appreciation
Thanks to great teachers like Eric Hale, schools may be closed, but #EducationIsOpen Eric Hale is a teacher at Out Teach partner school William Barnett Elementary. When Dallas schools re-open, he will be teaching a combined class of first and second graders. ...
by Alison Risso | May 29, 2020 | Stories from the field, Teacher Appreciation
NO! Heck NO! I Can’t Even… When Brookfield Elementary in Virginia closed in response to COVID-19, teachers were sent scrambling to help get students and their parents up on an online educational system. One by one, kindergarten teacher Melissa Amory helped parents...
by Alison Risso | May 8, 2020 | Teacher Appreciation
Angela McCarty achieves remarkable learning gains with her 700+ students every year by empowering an exceptional group of committed teachers who share the belief that all children can succeed, and then working with them to launch innovative initiatives. As an...
by Alison Risso | May 8, 2020 | Teacher Appreciation
It’s been three years since rockstar teacher Martha Brown’s beloved Denton Creek Elementary became an Out Teach partner school, and they’ve done amazing work in their Outdoor Learning Lab, which students have lovingly nicknamed the Trailblazer Discovery Trail. In...
