By Gemard Guery – Editor-In-Chief and Editorial Editor

Jonathan Law’s English Support Center is back in action for the 2023-2024 school year. In the English Support Center, Mrs. Lucia and members of the English department help students with all of their English class needs.  Advocate Editor-In-Chief Gemard Guery interviewed Lucia about the Support Center.

Gemard Guery: What exactly is the English Support Center?

Mrs. Lucia: The English Support Center is a place in the TLC where students can go to get help completing assignments and making up missed work, or they can go to have another set of eyes read an essay or look at a project they are creating. Each period, there is an English teacher scheduled to be in that room.

GG: What can the English Support Center help with in addition to English class work?

ML: We can honestly help with everything Humanities-related, because we are the most important subject 🙂 Around this time of year, we are busy helping kids with their college essays and supplementals as they prepare for application submissions.

GG: How can students take advantage of this resource?

ML: Students can take advantage whenever they are free. Because we have a teacher there every period, any time a student wants to come down is a good time.

GG: What do you wish students knew about the Support Center? 

ML: I wish students knew that the Support Center is a good place to come work in BEFORE you get behind or feel overwhelmed.

GG: Why do you think students should take advantage of this resource?

ML: Students should take advantage of the Support Center because it can never hurt to build a relationship with another adult in this building. And, talking through your thinking and about your work is the best way to revise and edit anything you are creating, whether it is an essay, a podcast, a poster, or a video. We English teachers are ready for those conversations.