Show #2
Initial Air Dates:
September 20 at 6:30 pm
September 25 at 7:00 am

Disney Teacher - Dan Moran from East Brunswick High School shows why so many teachers love their profession. Dan was one of 32 honorees out of 185,000 nominees for the 2003 Disney’s American Teacher Awards. Moran’s enthusiasm for teaching is contagious.

Alice in Writer's Land – Imagine Alice with writer’s block. She meets characters that only hurt her quest to write, such as run-on sentence, fragment, and double negative. But other characters such as noun, verb and adjective help her find her way back home. This creative play written by Jim Marchesani, is performed by the talented fifth graders from West Deptford Middle School.

FAST - Burlington City Junior High School participates in a program called FAST: Families and Schools Together Work for Children. This NJEA program is designed to encourage parental involvement in the public schools. In Burlington, the teachers work with parents on language, art and math to help parents help their kids with homework.

To explain how FAST works in other communities across the state, Host Joyce Powell is joined by Janet Morrison-Inniss, the NJEA director of the program, and teachers Loretta Bradley of Passaic, Rosalind Lewis-Adair and Gerri Burns of Roselle Borough. These educators are convinced that family involvement is the key to a successful school and improved student achievement.