Articles
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Spotlight: Jennifer Reaves (WV '18)
February 19, 2019Jennifer Reaves (WV ’18), the technology integration specialist at Morgantown’s Mylan Park Elementary, gets inspired by her colleagues: “I am pushed and motivated by what they are doing in their classrooms—and I’m innovating right alongside them.”
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Spotlight: Wendy Shirey (NV '18)
February 12, 2019Wendy Shirey (NV '18) spent her first year in the classroom at a school with high poverty and high transiency—but “that little school in a tough neighborhood in Las Vegas became the place I learned to love teaching.”
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Spotlight: Chris Bessonette (WY '18)
February 8, 2019Dual immersion teacher Chris Bessonette (WY ’18) tackles the achievement gap for language learners and low-income students by making vocabulary a cornerstone of his instruction: “Our knowledge of words determines our level of understanding.”
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Spotlight: Krista Trent (OH '18)
February 7, 2019Krista Trent (OH ’18), a fourth-grade math teacher at Thornville Elementary, holds happy memories from her first year of teaching, thanks to a great mentor and energetic students: “I fell in love with education because I fell in love with the kids.”
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Spotlight: Anitra Pinchback-Jones (WA '18)
February 5, 2019Principal Anitra Pinchback-Jones (WA ’18) starts every day at Rainier View Elementary School with a schoolwide meeting, which “sets the stage for positivity at school, emotional safety and healthy relationships.”
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Spotlight: Tasha Wilson (AR '18)
January 31, 2019Tasha Wilson (AR ’18) has a gift for classroom management. Her secret to keeping her second-graders in line: high expectations, structure, consistency and respect.
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Spotlight: Silvia Miranda (NM '18)
January 30, 2019Silvia Miranda (NM ’18) fell in love with teaching during her first year, when her kindergarteners realized “that letters actually made sounds and words, and that these words meant something to them.”
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Spotlight: Sarah Szymanski (CO '18)
January 28, 2019Sarah Szymanski (CO ’18) was inspired to become an educator after watching her mother, a sixth-grade teacher, develop lasting relationships: “I realized that as a teacher you can effect change on a daily basis and become a lifelong figure in the lives of your students.”
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Spotlight: Linda Dishman (KS '18)
January 16, 2019As a first-year teacher, Linda Dishman (KS ’12) wanted everything to be perfect in her classroom. She quickly realized that her students didn’t care about perfection: “They loved learning and being at school.”
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Spotlight: Shelly Gaughan (TN '18)
January 11, 2019Kindergarten teacher Shelly Gaughan (TN ’18) never thought about becoming an educator until she spent a week teaching ancient civilizations to sixth-graders as part of a high school career discovery program: “I found myself intrigued with the challenge of making this content relevant and exciting.”