{"id":167463,"date":"2026-08-07T11:23:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T15:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=167463"},"modified":"2026-08-07T11:23:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T15:23:19","slug":"a-new-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2026\/08\/07\/a-new-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"A new journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">More than 40 recent Wright State University <a href=\"https:\/\/health-education-human-services.wright.edu\/teacher-education\">teacher education<\/a> graduates who secured teaching positions in area schools received a boost as they prepare for their first year in the classroom \u2014 free classroom supplies from Crayons to Classrooms.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The new teachers were invited to a special event on July 29, where they filled carts with supplies to decorate and stock their new classrooms.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Abby Harris, who graduated from Wright State this spring and landed a teaching position at Morgan Education Services in Centerville, said the opportunity helped ease the stress of starting a new job.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt\u2019s an amazing partnership,\u201d said Harris, who filled an entire shopping cart with supplies. \u201cIt truly supplies the majority of my classroom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Crayons to Classrooms is a free school supply store that supports teachers from underfunded pre-K-12 schools in the Miami Valley.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now in its fourth year, the partnership has provided over $123,000 worth of school supplies to Wright State teacher\u00a0education graduates, said Malena Ball, marketing manager at Crayons to Classrooms.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI wish we had something like this when I was a first-year teacher,\u201d said Amy Elston, Ph.D., assistant director of the Office of Partnerships and Field Experiences in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/health-education-human-services.wright.edu\/\">College of Health, Education and Human Services<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">About a dozen Wright State faculty and staff assisted the recent graduates with shopping and loading items into their vehicles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 40 recent Wright State University education graduates who secured teaching positions in area schools received a boost as they prepare for their first year in the classroom \u2014 free classroom supplies from Crayons to Classrooms. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2026\/08\/07\/a-new-journey\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":167468,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[722,733,2104,744,725,727,4896,715,4892,720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-alumni","category-teacher-education","category-education-human-services","category-home-news-sidebar","category-homepage-photos-and-video","category-leadership-studies-in-education-organizations","category-news","category-teacher-education-education-leadership","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167463"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167986,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167463\/revisions\/167986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}