Temple University Harrisburg, Masters of Education graduate Mary Frey, was recently published in The Administrator, February 2010 Edition

Temple University Harrisburg, Masters of Education graduate Mary Frey, was recently published in The Administrator, February 2010 Edition. Wendy M. Frey is a fifth-grade teacher at the Phineas Davis Elementary School in the York City School District. She has more than 10 years of experience in the district seruing as a subsfitute teacher, fifth grade teacher and also teaching a fourth and fifth grade class split during the 2008-2009 schoo year. ln addition, she served as an emotional support teacher at York County School of Technology for one year.

Mrs. Frey´s artcile called Kids to Careers, discusses "lmproving the odds for severely at risk children to achieve success in school and in their adult lives constantly challenges educators and social workers a like" (Jordan,2006). The alarmingly high drop out rate in the York City School District pointed to the need for a program that would work to help reverse the trend and to encourage the students to become more involved and committed to their education. Finding a method to address this challenge was the motivation for York City´s innovatives school-to-work activities at the elementary level. Participation in the Phineas Davis Elementary Kids´-to-Carerrs program changed the paradigm from which students viewed opportunities for their future by expanding their vision of viable career paths."

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