Outreach to Teach
2011 Outreach to Teach
June 28, 2011
Charles Dawes Elementary School in Evanston, Illinois
Nearly 400 NEA volunteers are expected to gather on June 28 to repair and refresh Charles Dawes Elementary, which serves 365 kindergarten through fifth-grade students in Evanston, Illinois, near Chicago. Each year, the NEA Student Program sponsors a school makeover in the area where the NEA Representative Assembly is held. The students and educators of Dawes will return in the fall to find their learning spaces freshly painted, newly organized and merrily decorated. No spot is overlooked—hallways, staff lounges and bathrooms will be fixed up, too!
Outreach to Teach Historical Perspectives
As a way to give back to the community, a group of 35 civic-minded Student NEA leaders attending the 1996 National Education Association Student Leadership Conference in Atlanta, Ga., started a beautification project by repairing a local school. Since then, during the week preceding the NEA Annual Meeting and Representative Assembly, NEA Student Program members, with support from NEA Retired Conference attendees and other NEA members, have volunteered at schools in need of rehabilitation.
Over the past 15 years, Outreach to Teach has made a difference by helping needy schools in local communities hosting the NEA Annual Meeting. Public schools in the following cities have benefited from the hands-on Student Program project.
- 2010 - Belle Chasse, Louisiana (New Orleans metropolitan area)
- 2009 - San Diego, California
- 2008 - Arlington, Virginia (Washington, DC metropolitan area)
- 2007 - Norristown, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia metropolitan area)
- 2006 - Orlando, Florida
- 2005 - Compton, California
- 2004 - Forestville, Maryland (Washington, DC metropolitan area)
- 2003 - New Orleans, Louisiana
- 2002 - Dallas, Texas
- 2001 - Los Angeles, California
- 2000 - Chicago, Illinois
- 1999 - Orlando, Florida
- 1998 - New Orleans, Louisiana
- 1997 - New Orleans, Louisiana
- 1996 - Atlanta, Georgia
