Mrs. Rebecca Decker, Brick Memorial High School English teacher who currently teaches a college-level ELA course and Investigation of Law & Order, has been chosen as one of the recipients of the most recent grant. This grant allowed her to purchase a plethora of books to fill out her library appropriately.<\/span><\/p>\n Receiving this grant is not easy.\u00a0 In fact, this was Mrs. Decker\u2019s third time applying for the grant. According to Mrs. Decker, \u201cYou have to fill out your application, get a few letters of recommendation, and make a 3-minute video explaining why you deserve the award.\u201d She noted that it was a struggle to talk about herself for so long and to make her application stand out. \u201cI think it was the connection I made between myself and my daughter\u2019s struggle with reading, and how choice reading really changed that \u2026 and all these tiny experiences I get watching students when they reach a good twist or finish a book.\u201d Winning the grant was an important reminder to her of the benefits of perseverance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Mrs. Decker, the 2020\/2021 Teacher of the Year, has also worked with <\/span>Hope in a Box<\/span><\/i>, an organization that creates LGBTQ+-friendly book boxes, as well as the <\/span>Teachers Are Heroes<\/span><\/i> initiative. \u201cI\u2019m always applying for things like that,\u201d she shared. This is a great reminder of the efforts teachers make to give their students more resources.<\/span><\/p>\n As if this was not a big enough honor, this week Mrs. Decker had her 40th Donors Choose<\/a> Project funded!\u00a0 Donors Choose has been an imperative tool in getting books into the hands of students.\u00a0 Overall, Brick Memorial High School has raised over $42,000 in donations, with over 50% raised by Mrs. Decker alone!<\/p>\n Mrs. Decker also has a TikTok where she frequently recommends books to her students!\u00a0 Click here to see her page!\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n Students are always encouraged to visit room 206 to check out Mrs. Decker’s extensive classroom library!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Story by Belle Wurmser The Book Love Foundation was founded by Penny Kittle to pioneer choice reading in classrooms. According to Kittle’s website, “The\u00a0Book Love Foundation supports teachers who demonstrate a commitment and passion for promoting reading for all students by donating independent reading libraries of a wide variety of …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":1614,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bmhs-parent-news","category-bmhs-student-news","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brickschools.org\/bmhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brickschools.org\/bmhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brickschools.org\/bmhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickschools.org\/bmhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickschools.org\/bmhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickschools.org\/bmhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1615,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickschools.org\/bmhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611\/revisions\/1615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickschools.org\/bmhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brickschools.org\/bmhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickschools.org\/bmhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickschools.org\/bmhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.brickschools.org\/bmhs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/10\/FevjLscWIAEBkeL-225x300.jpg\")
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