2010 Outreach to Teach

Rebuilding Hopes and Dreams at a School in New Orleans

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Student FEA members always take advantage of the annual NEA Summer Leadership Conference. This year, the full delegation of 19 members attended the conference in New Orleans with more than half being first-time SFEA attendees. Four SFEA delegates remained to attend the NEA Representative Assembly.

There was a lot of learning and networking, but the most empowering portion of the trip was their participation in a full day dedicated to community service. The project is called Outreach to Teach. SFEA members joined a workforce of approximately 400, including members of FEA retired, and volunteers from the community to improve a local school that needed a facelift. This year’s project repaired and beautified Belle Chasse High School, in Belle Chasse, Louisiana, one of the many communities outside of New Orleans forever changed in 2005 by Hurricane Katrina.

With temperatures soaring around 90 degrees, it was a hard day’s work for NEA Student and Retired members, plus Belle Chasse faculty. They were scraping and peeling paint from hundreds of surfaces, sanding rust spots on exposed metal pipes, painting and painting and painting.  SFEA members were carefully taping windows and walls so trim could be touched up, replacing rickety courtyard benches with new, sturdy ones, and so much more. You can see the hard work of our SFEA members below.  Click the image to view and enlarge the picture. See the caption for each picture, from left to right, below.

Student FEA “Leading the Way”

• 1. THE PRIDE OF STUDENT FEA, OUR 2010 NEA RA DELEGATES 

Jennifer Smith, Samantha “Sammy” Roberts, Barbara Ogden and Laura Roberts are our elected SFEA Delegates to the 2010 NEA Representative Assembly.  Sammy is attending Santa Fe CC Jennifer, Barbara and Laura attend the University of Florida.

• 2. MADISON EASTERLING AND DAVE DIGIOVANNI PREPARE BELLE CHASSE HS MEDIA CENTER FOR PAINTING

Belle Chasse High School, near New Orleans, was the focus of the NEA “Outreach to Teach” school makeover project. Dave is Knight from UCF Madison is a Gator.

• 3.  SFEA MEMBERS AND UCF STUDENT NICOLE PRICE PREPS THE SOD FOR THE COURTYARD
  
  
  
• 4. SFEA AND UF STUDENT JEFF ANDRE PUTS A NEW COAT ON AN OLD DOOR

SFEA member Jeff Andre for the University of Florida rolls on the red at Belle Chasse High.

• 5. SFEA NEA STUDENT LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE TEAM
  
  
  
• 6. CHARLENE CHARLES FROM UCF PREPARES MATERIALS FOR A NEW BULLETIN BOARD

SFEA members redecorated classrooms, offices, employee workrooms and hallways throughout Belle Chasse High.

• 7. SFEA SLC ATTENDEE HILLARY CLARK WITH “FEEDOM WRITER” MANUEL SCOTT

Hillary Clark with Manuel V. Scott, NEA Student Program SLC Keynote Speaker and one of real “Freedom Writers”
Mr. Scott’s personal story was an inspiration for the movie starring Hillary Swank about troubled youth who overcome adversity.
 

• 8. FEA RETIRED, OUR SPECIAL SFEA PARTNERS AND HARD WORKERS

Ulysses Floyd, our favorite FEA Retired partner on his annual wheelbarrow duty helping with the Belle Chasse project.
 

• 9. SFEA MEMBERS JOIN THE LINE AT BELLE CHASSE FOR A COURTYARD FACELIFT
  

The entire courtyard of Belle Chasse HS was given a new sod facelift by Student NEA members…and what a difference! Kentucky SEA President Kevin Fox was the crew leader.
 

• 10. SFEA MEMBERS BUST A MOVE AT THE “COTTON CLUB” OF 2010

The NEA Student Program recreated the legendary Cotton Club at our annual SLC social event and SFEA members had a roaring good time. (L to R Chelsea Koch, Jeff Andre, Samantha Roberts, Ciara Rodgers, Jennifer Smith, Laura Roberts, Barbara Ogden and Madison Easterling).