You Made A Difference Awards

No less than 13 educators, one from each school district, in Licking County were honored with the “You Made A Difference” teaching award as given out by students.

UK Teacher of the Year 2008 is…

FUN-LOVING Paul Johnson has scooped the title of the Scarborough Evening News Teacher of the Year 2008.

School’s Teacher of Year uses river as a resource

Teacher Jill Wnuk believes middle school is not just about math, science and social studies: It is also about helping them discover what is really important in life.

Teacher strikes a winning chord

THE world may know only one Carlos Santana — the guitarist and rock musician — but at Mayflower Primary, there are quite a few of him, so to speak.

Del Mar teacher wins excellence award

Candy Basso is strict, which is understandable because she teaches a class of 30 English Language Development students at Del Mar High School.

This is the Oscar of teaching

Jean Murphy and her students at Long Range Academy have a lot of fun with math.

Teachers honored for educational efforts

Selina Meyer, of Indian Trail Elementary School, is the 2007-08 Kentucky Special Education Teacher of the Year. She teaches the self-contained Functional Mental Disability class at Indian Trail.

Teacher wins $10K award

Western & Southern Financial Group named veteran teacher Kimya Moyo this year’s winner of the Dr. Lawrence C. Hawkins Educator of the Year Award, an honor than comes along with a no-strings-attached $10,000 check.

Teacher nominated for journalism award

A SHEFFIELD (UK) schoolteacher found himself rubbing shoulders with sporting superstars when he was nominated for a top national journalism award.

Teacher in Fort Pierce gets national award

Indian River Community College adult education teacher Ed Musgrove thought he was going to hear about budget cuts when he and his adult education colleagues were called to a 9 a.m. meeting Friday. Instead, he learned he is getting a national adult education teaching award.

The world is this special teacher’s classroom

Patty Stone pulled a page out of an Atlas and began tracking the South American journey of her 25-year-old daughter, Sarah. A trail of yellow highlighter snaked through Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.

Teacher Helps Students Help Others

A former South Florida teacher of the year inspired her students to help others.

Successful student teacher program earns national award

St. Cloud State University’s co-teaching initiative – an idea so innovative it garnered a $5 million U.S. Department of Education grant in October of 2003 for its launch – has earned one of three coveted Christa McAuliffe Awards for Excellence in Teacher Education.

Fun science teacher wins devotion, award

Twelve-year-old middle school student Max K. Dowd enjoyed helping fourth-graders decorate cupcakes to look like the sun while a student last year in Beth C. Craven’s science class.

Newport teachers win grants for excellence

The Newport Public Education Foundation has announced the award of almost $20,000 in Teacher Excellence Grants during the current school year for special projects in and outside the classroom.

Tacoma teacher honored with Holocaust educator award

His students have met Holocaust survivors and seen former Nazi concentration camps in Poland with their own eyes.

He propels his pupils to appreciate science

Michael Lampert tells his microelectronics class he’s changing the lesson plan.

Teacher of year praised

The best part about being in second-grade teacher Michael B. Flynn’s classroom is learning about air pressure, according to 7-year-old Molli A. Loud.

Teachers recognized with awards

The West Aurora School Board will present two of its teachers with its version of the Golden Apple Awards on Nov. 19.

Bellevue teacher’s blend of science honored

Thursday’s science lesson in Paula Fraser’s fifth-grade class at Stevenson Elementary involved testing human enzymes.

High school teacher honored for his unique style

On the day Jeff Peterson was to start talking about one of America’s greatest scandals, the Merrimack High social studies teacher popped a homemade cassette tape into a boom box and held a contest.

Doing good an important lesson to learn early

Deana Butcher has faith in good deeds.

Math teacher surprised in classroom with honors

Jessieville High School math teacher Sherman Cutrer was named Teacher of the Year by the Wal-Mart Store on Highway 7.

Teacher Inspires a New Beginning for Student

As one man’s career is ending, another man’s is beginning and they couldn’t be more proud of each other.

Vermont Teachers Honored By White House

Two Vermont teachers are given the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching

Geometry teacher: Success is all in the mind

In Joe Monachino Sr.’s geometry class, it’s not just about recalling that the square of the hypotenuse of a triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of its sides.

Creativity in classrooms earns woman top honor

You never know what to expect when you walk into Keitt Easterling’s classroom: whether it be a child in a chicken hat or students sitting around a table designing a board game about global warming.

Retiring Educator Named Teacher Of The Year

After 40 years of teaching, a Tulsa educator is going out on a high note. The Lee Elementary kindergarten teacher is being named Oklahoma’s Teacher of the Year in elementary education. The News on 6’s Heather Lewin reports this will be a bittersweet goodbye.

Teacher’s passion for education never stops

The dry-erase board in Hue Tran’s classroom is filled with past tense verbs — ate, bought, cried — and her middle-school students are excited to make the list longer and longer.

Honored teacher draws life lessons from speech condition

Marjorie Brown recently was named Educator of the Year at the Shasta Damboree’s community awards banquet, after a sixth-grader praised her as an inspirational teacher who doesn’t let her speech condition get in her way. Brown, who teaches fifth grade at Grand Oaks Elementary School in Shasta Lake, has spasmodic dysphonia, a neurological disorder that affects her voice. She retires next month after 19 years in the classroom.

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