In honor of Teacher Appreciation Week we bring you ... Ashfield Middle School teacher Joyce Meaden who has written many grants this year to benefit our poorest kids.
Principal Barbara Lovell tells us Joyce wrote one grant for $500 to provide healthy snacks for kids over the weekends and also facilitated the receipt of three Wi-Fi hotspots they can take home for up to two weeks at a time so families can have unlimited internet on up to 10 devices.
Joyce got two chrome books kids can sign out and work all weekend on projects or just have fun on computers. She wrote a grant for the entire grade 7 to go to the Boston Aquarium, and another so that all of grade 8 was able to go to the Museum of Science with free busing. She is currently working with our district dietician Kate Quealy on a grant for students to create their own gardens and they are growing herbs, celery, lettuce, avocados, onions and other food items.
Joyce does things like this each year and is an amazing part of the Ashfield school community. She is another great example of teachers in the BPS who truly love what they do and do it well ... Rock on, Joyce with our thanks!