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The Randolph County Schools Elementary Summer SOLE Program will serve students in grades K-5, and Kump Education Center is responsible for hiring college mentors to work with young students. We need college students ages 18 to 24 to contact us before May 21 if they are interested in serving as a mentor.
SOLE (Student Opportunities for Learning and Engagement) is a West Virginia Department of Education summer school curriculum designed to help students who want to recover time they lost for academic skill building during the pandemic. Mentors will be assigned to one of three site locations: Midland Elementary School, Third Ward Elementary School and George Ward Elementary School.
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Kump Education Center continues to add apples to the wooden tree in our learning lab to honor beloved schoolteachers. This week we honor a teacher who has been nominated by two donors because his individual tutoring made such a difference in the lives of two students. This amazing teacher and friend of fearful learners is K.J. Shaffer who also serves as the president of the Kump Education Center Board of Directors.
Judy Guye-Swanson who also serves on the KEC Board wrote the following: “I would like to nominate K.J. Shaffer as an Apple for the Teacher tree. He was so kind and empathetic with my grandson in a particularly hard time for my grandson and family a few years ago. He made my grandson feel comfortable … and seemed to bond with him. He is a special person and has a caring and warm heart.”