With our trip to Boston just a day away, we wanted to take this opportunity to thank all of you who made this opportunity a possibility for our students. Through your generous support we raised $3,700 to aid students in need of financial assistance. We also wanted to update you on some exciting new developments for the trip:
Our students will have lunch on Friday with 2 professors and fifteen current students who are interested in Teach For America. Among these fifteen students will be the President of the Harvard Black Students Association.
One of Matt’s professors from college secured the donation of forty-five historical fiction novels that our students have been reading. Students were able to choose from Johnny Tremain, My brother Sam is dead, and the Witch of Blackbird pond.
This trip will not only expose our students to some of the most important sites in American history; it will help to raise their personal expectations about their academic future.
We are leaving for Boston tomorrow evening and will periodically update the following link with pictures from our trip.
http://picasaweb.google.com/dougherty.noah
Thank you again for your support.
Matt and Noah
P.S. Look out for a letter and picture from our students in the next couple weeks.
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Pictures from Boston
About the Trip
From October 30th to November 2nd 45 middle school students and 10 faculty and staff from G. Gardner Shugart Middle School will travel to the Boston Metropolitan Region. The students will have just finished their unit on the American Revolution. We will visit the sites on the Freedom Trail, Salem on Halloween, the museum at Lexington and Concord, and Harvard University.
About Matt and Noah
Matt and Noah are 2007 Metro D.C. corps members in Teach For America. They both teach 8th grade U.S. History at Shugart Middle School.
Matt is a 2007 graduate of Harvard College where he majored in social studies. He grew up in Pasadena, California. Prior to teaching, Matt was Vice President of the Harvard College Democrats, was actively involved at the Harvard Institute of Politics, and worked for a human rights organization out of Oxford College.
Noah is a 2006 graduate of the University of Pittsburgh where he majored in political science and urban studies. He grew up in Syracuse, New York. Prior to teaching, Noah was President of the Pitt College Democrats and founded the Pitt Political Review, a non-partisan journal of politics and policy. He has also worked for Teach For America in several different capacities.
Matt is a 2007 graduate of Harvard College where he majored in social studies. He grew up in Pasadena, California. Prior to teaching, Matt was Vice President of the Harvard College Democrats, was actively involved at the Harvard Institute of Politics, and worked for a human rights organization out of Oxford College.
Noah is a 2006 graduate of the University of Pittsburgh where he majored in political science and urban studies. He grew up in Syracuse, New York. Prior to teaching, Noah was President of the Pitt College Democrats and founded the Pitt Political Review, a non-partisan journal of politics and policy. He has also worked for Teach For America in several different capacities.
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