The U.S. Department
of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board announced that
Debra Covey, an Intervention Specialist at Dennis Elementary, has been offered
a Fulbright Teachers for Global Classrooms grant. Covey is one of approximately
seventy-six (76) U.S. citizens who will travel abroad through the Fulbright
Teachers for Global Classrooms Program in 2018-2019. Recipients of Fulbright
grants are selected on the basis of academic and professional achievement, as
well as demonstrated leadership potential.
Ms. Covey has been
with Springboro Schools since the 2012-2013 school year, where she served as a 6th
Grade Teacher at Springboro Intermediate. Beginning with the 2016-2017 school
year, Deb began as an Intervention Specialist at Dennis Elementary. Ms. Covey
has also served as a Spelling Bee Advisor, Reading Intervention Specialist, and
Title I Summer School Reading Teacher.
The Fulbright
Program is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by
the U.S. government and is designed to build relations between the people of
the United States and the people of other countries that are needed to solve
global challenges. The Fulbright Program is funded through an annual appropriation
made by the U.S. Congress to the U.S. Department of State. Participating
governments and host institutions, corporations, and foundations around the
world also provide direct and indirect support to the Program, which operates
in over 160 countries worldwide.
Since its
establishment in 1946 under legislation introduced by the late U.S. Senator J.
William Fulbright of Arkansas, the Fulbright Program has given more than 370,000
students, scholars, teachers, artists, and scientists the opportunity to study,
teach and conduct research, exchange ideas, and contribute to finding solutions
to shared international concerns.