Mentor Creighton Blackwell and Kenan Fellow Emmalea Couch discuss candidates for Coastal branch manager positions after interviews Monday, June 29, 2015.
- Where I Teach: C. E. Jordan High School (Durham Public Schools)
- What I Teach: English
- Teaching Experience:
- 4 years @ C. E. Jordan High School
- 1 year @ West Wilkes High School
- Why Kenan Fellows: Teaching English is great, but I missed challenging myself with math and science. Getting involved in STEM programming attracted me to the KFP (Kenan Fellows Program) initially. I chose my specific fellowship, “Making Cents of Financial Literacy,” because I felt financial education was lacking in my own school experience and I wanted to provide it to my students and others in the community.
- Goals of my Internship:
- Network with STEM educators to make my classroom instruction more interdisciplinary and to reinvigorate my passion for education.
- Develop partnerships with community members to expand what resources I can make available to my students and their families.
- Become financially competent and learn the lexicon and skills necessary to pass on that competence to others.
- Develop a financial literacy curriculum targeted at seniors preparing to leave high school and enter the world as (hopefully) productive citizens.
- Lead a Financial Literacy Community Outreach Night targeted to the families of Jordan students to address debt, budgeting, and future financial planning.