Anna Densford, kindergarten teacher at Doe Elementary, is the latest Northeast Community Credit
Union Helping Teacher’s Teach grant winner.
Densford used the grant to purchase supplies for the school’s kindergarten graduation program. Each family will be given a graduation ticket and a commemorative photo of their child and each student will be given a T-shirt.
“This will create a positive experience that will celebrate their hard work throughout the school year,” Densford said. “It is a reward for all of our students during this extremely difficult school year.”
Northeast Community Credit Union awards $300 every month to a classroom to be utilized for classroom needs, classroom activities, and academic enrichment. Helping Teachers Teach is open to teachers within Carter, Johnson, Unicoi, Sullivan and Washington counties who are members of Northeast Community Credit Union. Area teachers may become members online or at any NCCU location and can download the grant application on the credit union’s website: www.BeMyCU.org.
Courtney Taylor, Response to Intervention Coordinator at Hunter Elementary, is the latest Northeast
Community Credit Union Helping Teacher’s Teach grant winner.
Taylor plans to use the grant to purchase literacy tools for kindergarten through second grade students at Hunter Elementary. The materials would include reading dice, self-correcting methods and word sorts that focus on beginning reading sounds.
“Students will be having fun while they learn,” Taylor said. “These resources will be used in small groups and students will play games and improve their basic reading skills.”
Northeast Community Credit Union awards $300 every month to a classroom to be utilized for classroom needs, classroom activities, and academic enrichment. Helping Teachers Teach is open to teachers within Carter, Johnson, Unicoi, Sullivan and Washington counties who are members of Northeast Community Credit Union. Area teachers may become members online or at any NCCU location and can download the grant application on the credit union’s website: www.BeMyCU.org.
We enjoyed working with the UT Extension Office staff at Happy Valley High School this week.
This ‘Real Life’ Simulation includes coaching teens through choosing careers, buying cars, finding homes, and how to handle those annoying ’curveballs’ life throws at us.
Thanks for having us, Emily Barton – it’s always an interesting (and fun!) experience!
Northeast Community Credit Union is helping sponsor Happy Valley Elementary School’s End of the 
Year Celebration event to reward the students for all their hard
work during this unconventional school year.
“This is to reward students who have worked so diligently during these unprecedented times while maintaining a positive outlook for learning,” said Julie 
Winegar, second-grade teacher at Happy Valley Elementary. “We want to celebrate their efforts and success as we wrap up the 2020-2021 school year.”
Northeast Community Credit Union has been serving our community since October 1952 when it was chartered as a credit
union by the State of Tennessee. Northeast Community Credit Union is a not-for-profit financial cooperative. It is open to anyone who lives, works, worships or attends school in Carter, Johnson, Washington, Unicoi and Sullivan counties along with their immediate family 
members.
Christie Malone, fifth-grade math teacher at East Side Elementary, is the latest Northeast Community 
Credit Union Helping Teacher’s Teach grant winner.
Malone plans to use the grant to purchase two Polaroid instant cameras and film. This equipment would allow Malone’s students to create a “math newsletter” along with other projects such as a monthly classroom bulletin board, lesson projects and presentation boards.
“Students can be in control of taking pictures of our classroom projects, highlights of our lessons, and post these pictures along with work samples on a bulletin board for our peers and classmates to see,” Malone said. “This project would allow all fifth-grade students to be involved in something that they have never been able to be a part of. It would build their confidence, create new friendships and be a fun way to create something for
the school to see.”
Northeast Community Credit Union awards $300 every month to a classroom to be utilized for classroom needs, classroom activities, and academic enrichment. Helping Teachers Teach is open to teachers within Carter, Johnson, Unicoi, Sullivan and Washington counties who are members of Northeast Community Credit Union. Area teachers may become members online or at any NCCU location and can download the grant application on the credit union’s website: www.BeMyCU.org.
