Ann Crowley is the kind of teacher and teaching professional that the distance she will go to assist children isn’t likely to surprise anyone who has met her. But even by her high standards and buffered by some advance notices, it was a sight to make you stop and take a deep breath on the first morning of DPS’ new Holiday Learning Fest at Beard Early Childhood Center this week.
She, along with co-Teacher In Charge Ifetayo Karamoke, had assembled everyone from the former State Superintendent of Public Instruction (thank you, Tom Watkins, for coming to DPS), to Ann’s daughter, along with Reading Corps, CityYear Detroit, teachers, the Principal, family, friends and community members to cover the six-day, four-hours-per-day academic support and remediation program that also provides meals, parental workshops and immunizations at this and a couple of dozen sites across the city this holiday season.
And while it’s tempting, and deserving, to blog further just about this one committed educator, the scenes assembled by the teacher leaders at all the other school sites were undoubtedly similar… some 150 Reading Corps, Business Corps, other corporate or community volunteers, representatives from community, higher education, elsewhere who stepped forward for some holiday season service in a new form. If a tweet quoting a Harms Elementary School dad was any indication, the resulting program was and is a big hit: “I bought games&toys 4 Christmas but my daughter wants 2B here @ Harms!”
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