I teach at an innovative and award-winning, K-12th dual-language public charter school in Delaware with a diverse school student population - 50% are our students are minorities and 50% are 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 10th to 12th-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 34 raised beds, chickens, and goats.
My Project
An interdisciplinary teacher at my core, I teach a variety of courses at my school- Food Studies, U.S. History, Geography, and more. I have a small classroom filled to the brim with hydroponic and aeroponic systems. As our school reopens for in-person instruction, many new pandemic and social distancing guidelines are being implemented. Due to COVID-19, my students will not be able to move around in the classroom. Consequently, in my Food Studies course, I need to utilize flexible seating (tables) in my small classroom. I desperately need stainless steel work tables that will enable me to easily move them based on the size of my classroom in order to adhere to health and safety protocols. Despite having limited resources at my school, I am deeply committed to creating an innovative and inviting space for my diverse student body. I want my students to reimagine what is possible in a social studies course!
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