Galaxy Rodriguez, Staff Reporter
On August 3 Amie Charney, NESA’s creative writing director, was awarded the North East Educational Foundation (NEEF) grant for teachers. In order to receive this grant Charney wrote an essay detailing the vision she had for a web series which she and the other NESA majors are trying to start this school year.
As NESA is always expanding its curriculum the program is now jumping starting their own web series.
“What we wanted to do was to give our students at NESA an opportunity to have a collaborative project-based experience that allows them to create a real product. We want them to come out with a real product that they can use in portfolios that gives them real hands-on learning experiences,” Charney explains.
With this, Charney believes that the series will bring opportunity for students to experience a real project where all the majors are working together collaboratively, as they would in real life situations.
For Charney herself, this grant opened more doors to make the program’s idea a reality. The NEEF grant allows NESA to have the equivalent of a television program, and as this is a collaborative process for all the majors it was a shared success.
“It’s a huge honor. As a teacher it’s really an honor to be able to have a dream and a crazy hair-brained thought that is able to come true. Writing that grant was sort of like casting a wish out there,” she said.