Supply Our New Teachers and Counselors With Essential Kits!

Every year, about 250 students in the School of Education’s early childhood, elementary, secondary, special, and health and physical education degree programs complete their education degrees and venture out into new careers as young teachers or counselors. While most of our graduating students serve school districts in Mississippi, our University of Mississippi School of Education graduates can be found in schools around the country.

Let’s send this next generation of teachers and counselors out into the world with all the tools they need to be successful. In addition to preparing lessons or providing thoughtful guidance, young teachers and counselors need school supplies, which can be expensive for our new graduates. With your help, we will provide the classroom essentials our students need as they begin their teaching careers.

We invite all of our School of Education alumni and friends to help us supply our future teachers and counselors by sponsoring an Education Essentials Kit for our graduating students. Each kit contains a foldable, portable canvas tote filled with supplies, such as an SOE coffee mug, a stapler and staples, pens and pencils, sticky notes, dry-erase markers and erasers, a tape dispenser, paper clips, a three-hole punch, scissors, magnets, and an SOE pennant. Our student counselors will also be provided resources more specific to their role as educators outside of the classroom.

With your gift, you will have the opportunity to write a note of encouragement as our student teachers and counselors prepare to enter the classroom. This note may be written to a student of your choice or someone chosen at random.

Our goal is to provide kits to 250 new teachers and 30 new counselors. Your support provides critical resources to new educators as they embark on a career that will impact countless lives.

Thank you for supporting our future teachers and counselors by providing them with the essentials they need!