I teach at an innovative and award-winning, K-12th, dual-language, public charter school in Delaware with a diverse school student population. Fifty percent of our students are minorities and low-income. All of our students study the Greek language and global studies. Our Title I school is located on the outskirts of Wilmington. I truly love working at a diverse school with a focus on global citizenship!
I teach food studies, African-American history, Advanced Placement human geography, and US history to tenth to twelfth-grade students.
I am also the K-12th grade garden coordinator, advisor of Girls Grow Greens club, and one of the leaders of the Green Team on campus.
Our school is one of only a few schools in Delaware and in the country to receive the eco-schools USA Green Flag award for excellence in environmental action and learning. Recently, our school was honored to be selected as a 2020 U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon School!
Our Green Team has worked incredibly hard to implement several major projects to educate our students about how to be environmental stewards of the planet. For example, we now have a school vegetable garden with thirty-four raised beds, chickens, and goats!
My Project
Inspired by the Donors Choose project titled "If We Build Up Girls, Then We All Become STEMinists," students in the "Girls Grow Greens" club will watch videos featuring scientists Rhonda Hamm and Bridget Coughlin (long profiles) to learn about pioneering women in STEM! Next, as part of a service-learning project on campus, our students will assemble our newly acquired Little Free Library. Next, students will add picture books featuring notable female STEM scientists. The students in "Girls Grow Greens" will also record a few of them reading the picture books to promote the new "Little Free Library." A Little Free Library is a "take a book, return a book" free book exchange. Anyone can take a book or bring a book to share. This project will positively impact 2,000+ students by helping us build community, inspire readers, and expand book access. The more books in or near the home, the more likely a child will learn and love to read. our empty Little Free Library needs books!
More than a third of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
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Materials cost
$211.62
Vendor shipping charges
FREE
Sales tax
$0.00
3rd party payment processing fee
$3.17
Fulfillment labor & materials
$30.00
Total project cost
$244.79
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
$43.20
Total project goal
$287.99
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal
$287.99
5 Donors
-$183.76
Donations toward project cost
-$166.70
Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
-$17.06
match offer
-$91.87
Match offer toward project cost
-$78.09
Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
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