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16 Maine Teachers named as the 2023 Maine County Teachers of the Year

AUGUSTA — Sixteen Maine teachers were announced as 2023 County Teachers of the Year at a ceremony Thursday in the Hall of Flags at the Maine State Capitol during Teacher Appreciation Week. More than 500 teachers across Maine were nominated by a...

A total of 16 teachers were selected from a pool of more than 500 applicants, according to a Maine Department of Education news release.

Sixteen Maine teachers were announced as 2023 County Teachers of the Year today at a ceremony in the Hall of Flags at the Maine State Capitol during Teacher Appreciation Week. Governor Janet Mills joined Maine Department of Education Deputy Commissioner Dan Chuhta, Educate Maine Executive Director Jason Judd, State Board of Education Chair Fern Desjardins, … Continue reading Press Release: Maine’s 2023 County Teachers of the Year Announced

To determine Academic City Champions for the 2010-11 school year, Bridge Magazine collected and analyzed data for each campus in the Detroit Public Schools. All were judged by academic results relevant to their grade levels (testing at the fourth and eighth grades, ACT results and high school graduation rates for high-school grades). The results of the Detroit database can be found in a searchable format below the list of winners.  The champions Renaissance High School (Graduation Rate, College...

When Sherry Swain was teaching writing to first-graders, she sometimes took a lesson from E.B. White’s classic, “Charlotte’s Web.” She would read the first sentence -- “‘Where's Papa going with that ax?’ said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast.” -- and tell her students, “You know, that wasn’t E.B. White’s first draft. His first attempt started, ‘Once upon a time there was a little girl who lived on a farm.’”