Miner Elementary School has partnered with Kindred since the 2018-2019 school year to help build relationships across racial lines, and to help improve racial equity and inclusion at our school.

Kindred currently sponsors two parent dialogue groups, and helped Miner to establish an Equity Team to identify, assess, advise, and act on equity and inclusion issues at the school.

​Parents,

Thank you so much for your support!!  All because of you, Miner Elementary will provide Thanksgiving support to about 20 families!! 

Lastly, if you happen to walk by Ms. Jones or Ms. Loving room,  tell them congratulations!!! They are the winners of the non-perishable food challenge by collecting almost 70 items! 

Parents, thank you again! 

Sincerely, 

Monica Woodson, MSW
Community School Coordinator
Located at Miner Elementary:
601 15th Street NE
Washington, DC 20002

​The Miner community has been directing its minds and hearts toward the winter holidays, beginning with its very successful Thanksgiving Food Drive. Students collected several boxes full of nonperishable Thanksgiving foods for the school’s needy families, and the PTO gathered donations to buy Thanksgiving turkeys.

Miner’s Holiday Greenery and Bake Sale is Dec. 6 and 7. Proceeds from the trees, poinsettias, wreaths, and garlands will benefit the PTO. The Friday sale runs 5 to 8 p.m., and Saturday hours are 9 a.m to 2 p.m. Greens can also be pre-ordered on the school’s website. 

Miner’s family-support team has been offering a host of services to parents and students, including a recent Positive Discipline Workshop, a party to create “calm down” boxes, first aid/CPR training, and a job-readiness session. The school is also participating in Roots of Empathy to teach students emotional literacy and is offering after-school homework assistance for 2nd–5th-graders through YOUR (Youth Organizations United to Rise) Community Center.

While students were off during the Nov. 4 Records Day, parent volunteers stepped in to keep teachers company in the quiet building. They cleaned and organized classrooms and restocked supply cupboards so teachers could get caught up with grading and their backlogs of other tasks. 

Busloads of the school’s youngest students journeyed to Sharp’s at Waterford Farm in Howard County, Md., on Nov. 7 for the fall field trip. Preschoolers, kindergarteners, and first-graders got to go on a hayride, pet and feed farm animals, and pick pumpkins to take home.