Cindy Gaston is a teacher at Chattanooga School for the Liberal Arts (CSLA). She just happens to have been a favorite teacher for one of our founders and board members, Teal Thibaud. So you know Cindy is seasoned and well loved. We all know the pandemic has created challenges. For teachers, the pandemic has meant learning a new way to do almost every part of their jobs. Cindy Gaston wanted to do something to help teachers cope with their new normal. What? Year long programming for educators at CSLA through 55 copies of Onward: Cultivating Emotional Resilience in Educators along with supplies for monthly activities. And teachers are pumped!
Emotionally resilient teachers are better able to serve our students in Hamilton County. This $1,800 project will initially invest in 55 educators, but over the course of the next few years, the faculty will serve approximately 1,000 students per year. As Chattanooga’s newest high school is established, this project will help ensure that it has a solid culture that values emotional resiliency. After all “Who dares to teach must never cease to learn. -John Cotton Dana”