More than 50 recent Wright State University graduates who secured teaching positions at area schools received free classroom supplies at a special event at Crayons to Classrooms on July 30.<\/p>\n
The new teachers collected up to $2,000 in free supplies to decorate and stock their new classrooms.<\/p>\n
Cassidy Hale, who graduated from Wright State this spring, landed a teaching position at Fairborn Primary School. Hale, who filled two shopping carts with supplies, said the timing of the event could not have been better.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t have a job over the summer and it\u2019s hard to afford everything,\u201d said Hale. \u201cI have more than I ever could\u2019ve imagined.\u201d<\/p>\n
Crayons to Classrooms is a free school supply store for teachers from underfunded pre-K-12 schools in the Miami Valley.<\/p>\n
Malena Ball, the marketing coordinator for Crayons to Classrooms, said the program introduces the first-year teachers to Crayons to Classrooms\u2019 services while also building relationships.<\/p>\n
\u201cA good chunk of them will be going to schools that we serve regularly so they will be able to come again and shop in the fall and the spring,\u201d said Ball.<\/p>\n
About a dozen Wright State faculty assisted the recent graduates with shopping and loading items into their vehicles.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a great partnership,\u201d said Makenna Hartley, who graduated from Wright State in April and will begin teaching first graders at Carlisle Elementary School this fall. \u201cWe heard about the program in February, but I had no idea it would be this big.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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