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First and foremost, I love being a teacher! To spend my days inspiring students to appreciate and enjoy reading and writing is an amazing gift. I am extremely positive, compassionate, and enthusiastic. A Masters Degree from Columbia University and years of experience in public and private school systems has endowed me with a myriad of skills to succeed in any endeavor. But, if you ask me, academic learning is not done alone; therefore, I strive to maintain an open and supportive rapport with parents because teaching children is a team effort.

In terms of academics, I post our assignments EVERY DAY in the Google Classroom. I also utilize our Realtime system to create lesson plans and update student attendance and grades. Please visit the Student Portal or Parent Portal (accessible from the Manchester Home Page: www.mrhs.net .) Here you are able to view grades, missing assignments, and any discipline referrals. If you do not have your login information, please contact the Guidance Department immediately.

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Human Trafficking Locker Slam

In preparation for reading the novel Sold. My classes participated in the Human Trafficking Prevention Month Locker Slam program designed by the NJ Coalition Against Human Trafficking. Magnets that were donated by the Coalition were distributed randomly on lockers through out the school. My classes also watched the Coalition's January 11th Human Trafficking Awareness Day live stream event. This is a creative event with poetry, visual art, music and dance, along with “table talk” that explains the reality and vulnerabilities of young people to being trafficked.

Human Trafficking Awareness Month

Dear Educators,

Thank you so much for your participation in the January Human Trafficking Prevention Month LOCKER SLAM Program.

We are connecting you all via email so that you have an opportunity to network and share with each other the ways in which you’re using these magnets. We ask that you also post your activities on social media using #NJSTUDENTSFORFREEDOM so that we can follow what you’re doing. Anything you do is wonderful - you’re all incredibly creative people (we love educators!!) - so we leave it to your imaginations, but we’d also love to give you shout outs and be inspired by your actions.

You are our pioneers, and so we look to you for your ideas and feedback. Some of you asked about needing to recycle the magnets - great if you can (this program will run again in 2020), but if you want to have students take their magnets home, that is also fine. Just one magnet can change a life - by creating a leader in abolitionist work, or even by getting directly to someone at risk of trafficking. We trust you to use these magnets in the way you see fit. We have nearly 8,000 magnets in your schools - so the possibilities are enormous.

Below is the list of the pioneer schools.

Asbury Park High School

Camden County Tech

Dickinson High School

Eatontown Board of Education

Hackensack High School

Hawthorne Christian Academy

Hawthorne High School

Highland Regional High School

Immaculate Conception High School

Indian Hills High School

Jefferson High School

Jefferson Middle School

Jose Marti Freshman Academy

Kearny High School

Linden High School

Livingston High School

Maxson Middle School

Mendham High School

Millburn High School

Millville High School

Monroe Township High School

Neptune High School

Neptune Middle School

Newark Collegiate Academy

North Brunswick Twp High School

NuView Academy

PC Manchester Regional High School

Ronald Reagan Academy, No. 30

Saint Dominic Academy

Teaneck High School

Tenafly High School

Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy

Timber Creek Regional High School

Villa Walsh Academy

Warren Hills Regional High School

Attached is the flyer for Friday’s Human Trafficking Awareness Day live stream event (it will remain on Facebook after the live stream). Our college interns are bringing their own creativity to this event - so you can look forward to poetry, visual art, music and dance, along with “table talk” that explains the reality and vulnerabilities of young people to being trafficked.

Thank you for your participation and your commitment to helping end modern slavery in our state.

Best wishes,

Kate

Writing On The Desks!!

Don't worry, it's dry erase marker! My Honors English I class literally "got a kick" out of sharing their literary analysis claims by writing on their desks. Each student then circulated the room and added supportive evidence, in the form of quotes from our text, to their classmates claims.

Abigail GOT A KICK out of writing on her desk!

Name: Ms. Amy Hughes
Position: Teacher of English
Email: Send email