Entries for August 2024

New Community Learning Center (CLC) coordinator Jennifer Simmons believes her work experience will help her keep students engaged and improving academically at Ninth District Elementary School. Simmons is STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics)-certified and has extensive training and experience with project-based learning. By incorporating those types of activities, she hopes to keep students motivated and increase the impacts of the afterschool program. “There are so many possibilities for the...

Mike Lewis sees the opportunity to work with students as the new Community Learning Center coordinator at Holmes Middle School as a dream job. “My professional dream for my entire life was always to work with adolescent students/youth and find a way to bridge the gap between community and education,” he said. Now that he has the opportunity, he looks forward to using what he’s learned in previous jobs to serve the Bulldog family, he said. A native of Newport, Lewis has worked in higher educati...

As summer winds down and we head into fall, Covington Partners has been busy gearing up for another academic school year.  The start of the year evokes a range of emotions; excitement, inspiration, wonder, and sometimes, a bit of anxiety. This, perhaps, is most true for some of our youngest students entering kindergarten. It is not uncommon for students beginning school for the first time to feel apprehensive about a new routine, new building, and new faces.  To help prepare our students for kindergarten...

At Covington Partners, we believe in the transformative power of mentoring to foster personal growth, community engagement, and academic success. This belief has led us to embrace critical mentoring theory, a framework that emphasizes the importance of context, power dynamics, and the unique experiences of each mentee. Our latest initiative, the creation of the CP Student Advisory Board, embodies this approach and represents a significant step forward in our commitment to student empowerment. Critical mentoring theor...