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. »
Tuesday, Jun. 3, 2008
Thursday, May. 29, 2008
This is the Oscar of teaching
Jean Murphy and her students at Long Range Academy have a lot of fun with math. »
Wednesday, May. 14, 2008
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. »
Tuesday, May. 13, 2008
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. »
Tuesday, Apr. 1, 2008
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. »
Monday, Feb. 25, 2008
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. »
Thursday, Jan. 17, 2008
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. »
Friday, Dec. 14, 2007
Teacher reaches students across dining table
Shortridge Middle School’s assistant principal watched in puzzlement this year when the new sixth-grade teacher walked into the cafeteria, sat down among the students and unpacked his lunch. »
Thursday, Dec. 6, 2007
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. »
Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2007
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. »
Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2007
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. »
Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2007
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. »
Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2007
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. »
Friday, Oct. 26, 2007
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. »
Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2007
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. »
Thursday, Aug. 2, 2007
Teacher Shows Students To Love History, Wins Award
Long Beach, Ca. — Thanks to a longtime history teacher, the Kettering Classical Elementary School library soon will be getting a new archive of history books and materials. »
Tuesday, Jul. 10, 2007
Doing good an important lesson to learn early
Deana Butcher has faith in good deeds. »
Friday, Jul. 6, 2007
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. »
Thursday, May. 31, 2007
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. »
Wednesday, May. 23, 2007
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. »
Tuesday, May. 22, 2007
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. »
Monday, May. 7, 2007
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. »
Teachers: A special breed of heroes
Five Staten Island teachers were honored yesterday for their dedication and passion for the profession during the second annual Excellence In Education Awards ceremony at Staten Island Academy, Todt Hill. »
Friday, May. 4, 2007
Show appreciation for teacher
American author and historian Henry Adams (1838-1918) once said, “A teacher affects eternity, he can never tell where his influence stops.” Like many people, Adams, the grandson of the sixth U.S. president, John Quincy Adams, thought of teaching as one of the most important jobs a person can seek. »