SMITHFIELD – Mrs. Jessica Lester and Ms. Kim Hines, both veteran teachers at Neuse Charter School in Smithfield, were selected to participate in Great Shape! Inc.’s 13th annual teacher training program in Jamaica. This transformative program, which began in 2011, aims to empower Jamaican educators with essential skills in computer literacy, behavior management, literacy, and numeracy training. This year marks a significant milestone as the program introduced the pilot of the Summer Reader Program for primary school students and the Fix-It team that traveled to schools with the aim of improving the physical facilities.
Great Shape! Inc. is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to humanitarian efforts in the Caribbean in the areas of education, dental care, and eye care. For over 35 years, the organization has worked to improve lives and communities and has been instrumental in making a difference in the daily lives of those in need.
For more information about Great Shape! Inc. and their humanitarian initiatives, please visit https://greatshapeinc.org/
Neuse Charter School is the only independently governed and operated K-12 charter school in Johnston County.
Teacher training in Jamaica….laughable.
Your disdain for everything and everyone is laughable.
And your gullibility and naïveté is yours.
Is mine what? Your sentence does not make sense. Try again.
Laughable…. English much?
Laughable. Your gullibility and naïveté is “laughable”.
So once you figured out that your sentence structure sucked, you floundered and came up with a solution. Well played. Stay off the keyboard.
At first glance, it sounds like a non-profit is bringing teachers to Jamaica to help out the locals. Great.
But the phrase “selected to participate” makes me wonder who is paying for something like many professional conferences in resort locations that are more of a luxury vacation than work.
Your first glance is correct. I am sure selected means, they don’t want the bottom of the barrel coming to train their educators. Try having some faith in humanity. If you want more information, try going to the link provided.
Cost $850 plus airfare. So are the teachers paying their own way, or are they being sponsored?