About Us

FACE began in 2013, as a volunteer organization to assist teachers in finding the supplies they so desperately needed for their classrooms. It expanded quickly into providing professional development for teachers in the areas of reading/literacy, cultural competency, and creating support systems for teachers in their first five years of the profession. FACE continued this role until 2019, when they received a grant from the Saint Paul in Minnesota foundation for $20,000 to help with a literacy project with Washington technology magnet school. Here, middle school students or partnered with a program called. Let’s go learn, to help increase literacy, practice, and increase knowledge and skills. Shortly after the program was accepted, the great Covid pandemic began, and there was a shift to do the program on line because of all of the different demands, the schools were changed from Washington Technology Magnet School to the Community School of Excellence, a charter school that was better equipped to be able to use Let’s Go Learn from home. Even with all of the difficulties at home learning created, students still found great success with the program. At the same time, FACE was asked to also assist Saint Paul public schools in two other needs during the pandemic. FACE personnel assisted with delivering meals on school buses to children who needed the food at home, but depended on school lunch and breakfast to get them through the day. Second, FACE assisted the district with finding ways to get hotspots on other school buses and putting them in areas where kids had no Internet and could hook onto the hotspot so they could attend school during the pandemic. Both were equally hard to manage, but we were honored to be part of the solutions to both of these problems.