Articles
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Spotlight: 10 Questions for Dale Adamson (FL '17)
February 9, 2018Teaching math is all in the family for Dale Adamson (FL '17). He works alongside his sister Katelyn and mother Karen, a 30-year math educator he considers his biggest professional inspiration: "She has instilled in me the belief that a teacher is never done learning."
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Spotlight: 10 Questions for Toni-Ann Palmisano (NJ '17)
February 8, 2018A professor once told Toni-Ann Palmisano (NJ '17) that the key to classroom management is not cracking a smile until December. She’s glad she ignored that advice: “I embrace my bubbly personality in the classroom because I want my students to see that no matter what age you are, it’s important just to be yourself.”
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Spotlight: 10 Questions for Jordan McGaughey (MO '17)
January 30, 2018Social studies teacher Jordan McGaughey (MO ’17) hopes kids leave his class charged about learning and prepared for college-level work: “If students are passionate about what they are learning, they’ll seek out more education as they get older.”
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AVID and Milken Educators: Reinforcing Excellence, Building Relationships
January 23, 2018How has the AVID experience shaped Milken Educators? In a panel discussion at the AVID national conference in December 2017, four Milken Educator Award recipients talked about the impact AVID’s college-and-career-readiness strategies have had on their own practices and their students’ success.
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Spotlight: 10 Questions for Adam Gehlhar (ND '17)
January 8, 2018Principal Adam Gehlhar (ND ’17) has holistic goals for students at Jamestown High School: “I want them all to find their purpose and to learn how to use their minds well.”
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Spotlight: 10 Questions for Tami Lunsford (DE '17)
January 3, 2018When a graduate school colleague convinced her to bring a bucket of organisms into a local middle school, marine biologist Tami Lunsford (DE ’17) knew she had found her purpose: “My heart kept calling me back to the classroom.”
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Spotlight: 10 Questions for Melanie Alfaro (NM '17)
January 2, 2018Melanie Alfaro (NM ’17) began her career in the classroom after her son was born: “I wanted to be the type of teacher that I hoped my own children would have.” She received New Mexico’s Milken Educator Award at Deming Intermediate School on November 30, 2017.
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Ms. Lunsford's Milken Award Energized Our School
December 21, 2017Tenth-grader Jesse Roy was in the gym at Newark Charter High School the day we surprised Tami Lunsford (DE ’17), his biology teacher, with her Milken Award. Here's how the Award affected him.
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How to Prepare a Keynote Address: 5 Tips
November 13, 2017After Michelle Ryan (MA '15) joined the Milken Educator family in 2015, a high-profile conference tapped her to present her first-ever keynote address. Here's what she learned.
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The Milken Educator Award, One Year Later
October 23, 2017A year later, 2016 Milken Educators reflect on the impact their Awards have made on their careers.