NEA 's American Education Week (AEW) spotlights the importance of providing every child in America with a quality public education from kindergarten through college, and the need for everyone to do his or her part in making public schools great.

Their annual tagline, Great Public Schools: A Basic Right and Our Responsibility, reflects the Association's calling upon America to provide students with quality public schools so that they can grow, prosper, and achieve in the 21st century.

National Education Week Events at CC

Monday, November 16  through Thursday, November 19
Honor teachers who inspired you!
In the lobby of Ariail Peele you will find C2 Celebrates National Education Week postcards.  Write to a teacher or teachers who inspired you.  A directory of addresses for South Carolina schools is available.  Give the cards to Ms. Amanda Thompson and we will see that they are mailed on Friday.

Watch for Pennies for Peace!
This is a fundraising opportunity among classes and faculty to support educational opportunities in underdeveloped countries.
 
Wednesday , November 18
Remember the movie Freedom Writers?  
(based on the book The Freedom Writers Diary
Erin Gruwell and 150 teachers she selected from around the US and Canada have written a book about different experiences inside the classrooms--everything from regular education to incarcerated youth.  
 
Columbia College welcomes Carol Jackson, a freedom writer teacher, who has contributed to the new book, Teaching Hope: Stories from the Freedom Writer Teachers and Erin Gruwell. Jackson will speak on campus Wednesday, November 18 at 5 PM. BLC 201-202. Copies of her book will also be in the bookstore.  Check this out:

 
Thursday, November 20th
Teaching Fellow “walk- about” research presentations
Time: 12:30-1:15
Place: Ariail Peele rooms 107 and 110.
Come enjoy refreshments and be inspired by student educational research and meet Bryan Coburn, South Carolina Teacher of the Year