The
Baytown Sun
Newspapers in Education
Team
up with The Baytown Sun to support local classroom teachers and students!
Classroom
copies of The Baytown Sun are available free for local classrooms. We
have corporate sponsors and donations of vacation time subscription copies
from our subscribers that underwrite the cost of producing and delivering
the paper to students.
Weekly
Teacher Guides
The Baytown
Sun is proud to offer — free of charge — a new weekly
interactive lesson plan in partnership with USA
Weekend. New Teacher's Guides are available every Monday, complete
with monthly themes highlighted in a weekly lesson and a monthly activity
sheet.
For questions
and comments:
Joshua K. Hart
NIE cooordinator
Program
Sponsors
The Baytown
Sun wishes to thank these NIE sponsors.
Newspapers
In Education Objectives:
• To educate students
and cultivate future readers.
• To narrow the gap
between school and the real world.
• To motivate students
through challenging newspaper activities.
Newspapers
In Education Provides:
• Newspapers at little
or no cost.
• Classroom curriculum
materials and student programs.
Student
Benefits:
• Classroom
Newspapers.
• Promote student
literacy.
• Provide hands-on
opportunities and real life examples of how school subjects apply in today's
world.
• Integrate world
and local news, politics and technology into the classroom.
• Spark enthusiasm
for meaningful classroom interaction.
• Cultivate continued
student interest in current events, broadening the ability to learn.
• Serve as a living
textbook, allowing student to witness history as it happens.
• Endure as a motivating
and stimulating teaching tool.
• Create lifelong
learners, more informed consumers and involved citizens.
Newspapers
In Education Mission
Newspapers In Education
(NIE) at The The Baytown Sun is committed to building newspaper readership
in an effort to create lifelong learners, informed consumers and involved
citizens. NIE promotes literacy and support educational excellence by
providing academically sound classroom materials, useful in-service events
for teachers and quality services to educators throughout the state.
Why Should
Your Business Invest In Baytown Schools Through Newspapers In Education?
• You will provide
a valuable educational resource to thousands of local students.
• Students will benefit
directly from your active role in their classroom learning experiences.
• Developing an educated
work force improves our community and our economy.
• Newspaper readers
become more involved with community activities and civic responsibilities.
• You
will be recognized as a corporate citizen interested in quality education.
How
Can Your Business Join Newspapers In Education?
You can
become an The Baytown Sun NIE Sponsor
by purchasing daily newspapers for use in our community classrooms. To
be a sponsor, contact: Joshua K. Hart, NIE cooordinator.
