Rachael Trusler, Student Support Coordinator at Hampton Elementary, is the latest Northeast Community Credit Union Helping Teachers Teach grant winner. Trusler applied for the grant to purchase supplies to start the Bulldog Swag Shop, a student-led project ran by the Hampton Elementary Student Council. Student will design and create Bulldog shirts and spirit gear using […]
Brooke Shanks, special education teacher at Unaka Elementary School, is the latest Northeast Community Credit Union Helping Teachers Teach grant winner. Shanks applied for the grant to create a classroom store to help students learn and understand different financial concepts. During the week, students will earn “money” for classroom work and behavior. At the end […]
Chelsey Smith, kindergarten teacher at Cloudland Elementary School, is the latest Northeast Community Credit Union Helping Teachers Teach grant winner. Smith applied for the grant to purchase supplies to create a books, shelves and comfortable seating to create a reading corner for her classroom. Smith has been teaching for nine years, previously teaching fourth through […]
Northeast Community Credit Union is helping to support students as they prepare for a new school year by sponsoring both of Carter County’s backpack programs. NCCU donated $1,000 to both of Carter County’s Back to School Bashes in both cash and giveaways. The Back to School Bashes gives away thousands of backpacks filled with school […]
Rhonda Taylor, pre-K teacher at Wandell Early Learning Center, is the latest Northeast Community Credit Union Helping Teachers Teach grant winner. Taylor applied for the grant to purchase a new classroom rug. In pre-K classrooms, the classroom rug is a large part of daily activities. It is used in circle time, story time, lessons and […]
Lauren Meier, Health Science teacher at Elizabethton High School, is the latest Northeast Community Credit Union Helping Teachers Teach grant winner. Meier applied for the grant to help cover some of the out-of-pocket costs for EHS’s Health Science students when they go to the National Skills USA Conference in Atlanta in late June. Seven EHS […]
Katelin McKeehan, English teacher at Hampton High School, is the latest Northeast Community Credit Union Helping Teachers Teach grant winner. Each May, McKeehan takes her students to Barter Theatre in Abingdon to enjoy a play. She will be using the HTT grant to help cover the cost of lunch for the students. “We read plays out […]