Video: Community Members Become 'Teacher for a Day'

Around 20 participants, including a state assemblyman, freeholders, mayors, council and board of education members, business owners and reporters (including East Windsor Patch Local Editor Ashley Peskoe), participated in the 'Teacher for a Day' program last Thursday.

East Windsor Education Association President Ellen Ogintz said the New Jersey Education Association started the 'Teacher for a Day' program, "whose purpose was to bring community members into the schools so they could walk a mile in a teachers shoes and see what happens, and see that there are happy kids in these schools, because the teachers are excellent."

The guest teachers taught either a provided lesson plan, or one they made themselves, for an entire day with a cooperating teacher guiding them. 

The full list of participating community members and teachers is below.

Participating Community Member Cooperating Teacher Dan Benson, Assemblyman Ross Gary and Stuart Wexler, Hightstown High School Selena Bibens, Hightstown Council Member Kathleen Fallon, Grace N. Rogers Elementary School Ann Cannon, Freeholder Kathleen Carvalho, Grace N. Rogers Elementary School John Cimino, Freeholder Melanie Bowen, Grace N. Rogers Elementary School Pat Colavita, Freeholder Melanie Bowen, Grace N. Rogers Elementary School Paul Connolly, Board of Education Member Carl Buonafede, Hightstown High School Bruce Ettman, Board of Education Member Diana Horowitz, Hightstown High School Bonnie Fayer, Board of Education Member Teri Horta, Hightstown High School George Fisher, Local Bank Owner
Pete Brescia and Amy Kramer, Hightstown High School Janis Haddock, Kreps Middle School PTO President
Mary Seitz, Hightstown High School Steven Kirson, Hightstown Mayor
Kay Brown, Grace N. Rogers Elementary School Eugene Lambert, Hightstown Parks & Recreation Commission
Barbara Klapsogeorge, Walter C. Black Elementary School Helen Lazzaro, Walter C. Black Elementary School PTO President
Karen Haug, Walter C. Black Elementary School Mark Madonia, Hightstown First Aid Squad Captain
Nicole Kuchie, Grace N. Rogers Elementary School Janice Mironov, East Windsor Mayor
Amy Kramer, Hightstown High School Ashley Peskoe, East Windsor Patch Local Editor
Mary Ann Ragany, Kreps Middle School Scott Pohl, Twin Rivers Home Owner's Association President
Kim Kryscnski, Hightstown High School Paul Rockman, Retired
Margaret Goldman, Hightstown High School Jen Samuel, Windsor-Hights Herald Managing Editor Marion Mullen, Hightstown High School

Linda Greenstein (D-Mercer/Middlesex) and Wayne DeAngelo (D-Mercer/Middlesex) were scheduled to attend but were unable to make it.