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Award Notification:  Kristi Grooms (SC '13)

Kristi Grooms's Life is Changed with a Surprise Milken Educator Award

"Thank you so much. This is going to change my life...my whole life." -- Kristi Grooms (SC '13)
It was a $25,000 holiday surprise for Kristi Grooms of Dutch Fork Middle School in Irmo, SC! Citing the importance of effective teachers, SC State Superintendent of Education Dr. Mick Zais and National Institute for Excellence in Teaching President and CEO Dr. Gary Stark, presented Kristi with a 2013--14 Milken Educator Award.  Watch as Kristi shares the news with her mom, hear what her students had to say, and more.