JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) – Jackson State University opened Mississippi’s first Aspiring Educators Resource Closet on Monday, giving education students a place to pick up classroom supplies before they start teaching.
The closet, inside the College of Education and Human Development, is a partnership with the Mississippi Association of Educators-Retired. Shelves hold calculators, rulers, staplers, markers, crayons, colored pencils, glue, paper clips, Play-Doh, sanitizer and disinfectant wipes. There also are clipboards, dry erase markers, headphones, a tea kettle, coffee and water.
Teanna Howard, a JSU senior who will graduate in May 2027, is president of the school’s Student Education Association. She said new teachers have a long list of materials to gather as they enter the field, and the closet takes some of that weight off…