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Project Goal

The goal of this project is to acknowledge and reward students for showing academic growth and meeting behavior standards. Your funding will go towards providing young girls an opportunity to celebrate their successes and moments of growth. By doing this, I believe we can build a momentum for academic achievement all year! The funding will cover the transportation of 2 field trips. Please see below for field trip information.  

 

Category

School-Wide, Grade-Level, Or Class Events/Programs - Parent Nights, Honor Roll Celebrations, EOY Events, etc. 

 

How Project Benefits Students

Many of my students come from low-income backgrounds and single-parent households. Because of this, many students cannot afford to pay for field trips. As a teacher, many of those students have confided in me their daily struggles and I realized more than ever the urgency for mentorship within my school and community. Specifically, there is a need to provide young women with the resources and tools to be more than their circumstances, insecurities, and what society tells them to be. This project will serve as an incentive to keep students on the right track. We expect to have 50 girls in the club this school year and we hope to take 30-50 of them on quarterly field trips. Because students will be tracked both academically and behaviorally through a mentorship program and empowerment club, we want to celebrate their moments of growth be it big or small! While the club is made up of 9th-12th grade students, our biggest demographic is usually 10th and 11th grade students. These are two of the most pivotal years of high school in regard to graduation requirements and testing. By mentoring and celebrating these students, we know we can keep them on track to graduate and to improve their lives.

Field Trip #1 will be in October: Team Building at USF Ropes Course with USF Kosove Society and USF Latino Scholarship Program Presentations. Students who improved GPA or grade in a struggling course or maintained passing GPA will participate in outdoor team building activities and a celebration lunch funded by a local restaurant. We will also have speakers from different scholarship programs speak to students.

Field Trip #2: This trip will be an experiential learning trip where students will engage in culture, art, stem, nature and history. This trip will be in January to celebrate the hard work in quarter 2. Our theme this month will be "renewing our vision." After a guided tour of learning, students will hear from local business owners for a mini women's empowerment panel at the bayfront gardens.

By helping us cover transportation, students will not have to pay for their trip. Because we are celebrating their hard work, trips should be free to students.

Please note: The picture I have attached is the BLOOM girls club at one of the field trips HEF and partners so graciously funded transportation for. I knew it was important to celebrate their hard work as some of them have improved their GPA and have made better choices socially. This is the magic of field trips: we expose students to new things, show them they are loved, and it keeps them motivated to do their best!  

 

Expected Outcome(s)

Students will develop the intrinsic motivation to do their best while we celebrate their growth. We will see this via a decrease in poor attendance, tardies, behavior issues, and an increase in academic achievement.  

 

Detailed Cost Summary

9/20/24 deadline
Last year booking a charter bus (school buses are not available for full day trips or out of county trips) cost 650 for only 5 hours.

We will need to book transportation from 9 am-3:00 pm which is a total of 6 hours. The cost per hour is 130 which totals at 780 per bus.  

 

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