Tammey Cook has been a passionate educator for the past 24 years, and in that time she’s trained herself to look for any idea to help her students achieve, particularly those children whose opportunities are limited by systemic inequity in education.
One of those great ideas came to Tammey at her nephew’s birthday party. His parents had hired a mobile party trailer that brought the party to the kids wherever they were. Tammey knew she could bring learning to children in that same way.
So along with her husband and her father, Tammey bought a trailer, gutted it and turned it into School2U, a mobile classroom providing academic support to Lake Charles-area children. This classroom-on-wheels is a reconstructed 28-foot trailer equipped with computers, an interactive touch board and built-in desks and stools. The classroom reaches the children of hardworking families who don’t otherwise have access to extracurricular learning to reinforce math and reading skills.
School2U hopes to bridge achievement gaps by providing fun, year-round education to children. In the program’s first year, Cook worked with 65 students at two sites to improve test scores. School2U is growing rapidly, and Tammey hopes to reach 90 students three days a week next year.