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Proposal: Non-Profit In A Public School

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Our program is a non-profit situated in a public school in New York City’s Lower East Side. We are located within a title-one school, with a vast majority of our students receiving free lunch. Our summer goals include the student’s transition to the next grade seamlessly, the ability for students to explore their own passions and have a collaborative talent show at the end of the summer. Our goals also include introducing our students to the wide range of cultural institutions which New York City has to offer. We provide our students with a safe space which allows them to grow in a social emotional and personalized setting.

If we had a Summer Teaching Fellow, we would utilize him or her as an important resource to our team. Their tasks would include, lesson planning, organizing resources and teaching a weekly class to his or her preference. This class could be anything as long as it is age appropriate and correlates to both the teacher and student’s passions. One idea could be a science, technology or math related class. In addition, they would help with educational administrative tasks such as, book organization to appropriate grade level, sorting resources to be used by the appropriate groups, inquiring about student passions and finding appropriate outside locations for the students to explore these passions. The Summer Teaching Fellow would be working with grades kindergarten to fifth grade. …show more content…

Along with Jason, is myself, Rachel Herman. I am currently finishing up my masters in Childhood General and Special Education from Hunter College. I would love the opportunity to have a summer teaching fellow to teach what I know and utilize as an important resource with our

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