Deidre Rabuck

Rabuck’s innovative teaching idea, “Fairmount News Station,” focuses on giving the students at Kennedy Krieger Lower Middle School who have learning, behavioral, and physical disabilities the opportunity to write, produce, and star in the school’s morning announcement “news series.” With a goal of mirroring an authentic, local news broadcast, students will create the content of the show, prepare written scripts, create background scenes, record the broadcast and deliver the finished newscasts to each of the school’s classrooms. With the Voya grant, Rabuck will create the on-campus news station, an engaging and interactive vehicle for students to move outside of their comfort zones, work cooperatively, and master a variety of new skills.