Press Release: The Illinois Education Association is proud to announce that it has awarded a $1,000 grant to a member of the Lexington Art Department. District Art Teacher, Emma Long, was given the grant as part of the IEA’s Schools and Community Outreach by Educators program, which is a grant program designed to give educators in the first 10 years of their career a chance to apply for money for a service project. Long works as a District Art Teacher at Lexington CUSD #7. This is her second year teaching 1st-12th grade at Lexington. In cooperation with the Church of Christ Uniting and the assistance of Rev. Jan Proeber, Long has chosen to use the funding to support the start up of a fine arts program in Lexington’s old blacksmith shop building. Parent/child workshops, open mic nights, and art exhibitions will be a few of the events held at the fine arts center starting in December of 2013. In all, nearly 100 grants were awarded to educators’ projects across the state. Educators’ ideas for projects were creative, varied and are based both inside and outside schools. All of them benefited students, students’ families and the community. Field trips, food pantries, plans to get parents involved in schools, increased access to supplies and community service projects were just some of the ideas that were funded. “We were so pleased with the range of ideas submitted by our members,” said IEA President Cinda Klickna. “We know that our educators are in the schools every day giving 100 percent, but there was an unmet need out there. So many of them wanted to do more. It’s in their nature. We were glad to help them make their ideas come to fruition.” The IEA represents more than 130,000 members, including teachers, education support professionals, higher education faculty and staff, retired educators and students planning to become teachers.
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