Concord Ed Fund Featured in The Concord Bridge
The Concord Education Fund was recently featured in The Concord Bridge. Reporter Trace Salzbrenner emphasized the more than $3 million that CEF has disbursed to Concord schools in its lifetime, highlighted recent grants, and spoke with grant recipients.
Rivers and Revolutions is among the programs that received early support from the Education Fund and later became part of the regular CCHS curriculum. The interdisciplinary program combines English, history, math, and science and takes students outside the classroom to learn.
Math teacher Ashley Cohane, the program’s leader, said recent CEF grants have helped students continue learning outdoors with the help of rechargeable hand warmers, ponchos, portable stools, and field guides used during lessons in places such as Estabrook Woods and along Boston’s Rose Kennedy Greenway.
“We’re able to get the students out no matter the weather,” Cohane said.
Cohane said she has seen the grants’ benefits both as a Concord teacher and public school parent.
She praised CEF as giving parents a way to make a direct “impact on the education and learning that our kids have access to,” and notes a districtwide effect.
