FirstLine in the Community: Habitat & Coaches

At Samuel J Green Charter School

Tuesday March 26, 2013, our own coach Dwight Myvett from Samuel J. Green Charter School, was featured on WWNO 89.9 Community Impact Series. The segment highlighted the national nonprofit Up2Us, which expanded to New Orleans in 2012. The organization aims to provide youth with more sports coaches and mentors through a sports program called Coach Across America.

In addition to coaching physical education at Green Charter School, Coach Myvett coaches basketball at New Orleans Charter Science and Math School, along with acting as a coach and mentor for the Up2Us organization. Born and raised in south central Los Angeles, Coach Myvett is helping our students at Green to not only excel as athletes but also to learn how to channel their energy in positive ways.   

At Joseph S. Clark Preparatory High School

On Saturday, March 23 Clark Prep’s National Honor Society (NHS) embarked on its second Habitat for Humanity project in the city. NHS faculty supervisor and English teacher, Caleb Osborn, 11-12 grades Social Worker Melanie Padron and Foreign Language teacher Glenn Evans joined the students early Saturday morning in the Ninth Ward. The group worked to construct siding on a home and assisted Habitat for Humanity staff in various capacities. They also organized the space for projects that will be completed by the large number of incoming Spring Break volunteers over the next couple of weeks.

Altogether there were thirteen students involved in the National Honor Society and friends project this past weekend. The service day was described as a great learning opportunity where Habitat for Humanity staff demonstrated how to use power tools such as electric sheers. One student found the project to be a nice and uplifting experience. Clark Prep is proud to work with community partners like Habitat for Humanity and give back to our community. Trips like these provide students with the chance to not only do meaningful work but continue to learn alongside fellow students, and this time their knowledge expanded to lessons learned outside of the classroom.