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‘Mr. D.C.’ could become Missouri’s third National Teacher of the Year
In 1952, the first National Teacher of the Year award was presented by President Harry Truman of Missouri to bring recognition to the importance of teachers as nurturers of the American Dream. The program is put on each year by the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), a nonpartisan nonprofit organization of public officials who head departments of elementary and secondary education.
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Since the national program’s inception, Missouri has had two teachers capture the honor. The last time the state had a National Teacher of the Year was nearly 41 years ago – in 1980 when Beverly Bimes of Hazelwood High School East, St. Louis was given the title. The first Missouri teacher to capture the award was Mary Schwarz of Bristol Elementary in Kansas City in 1957. She shared the honor with Eugene Bizzell, a high school English teacher fro
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SANTA FE – Four New Mexico teachers have been named state finalists for the 2021 Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching, K-6.
The four finalists are teachers Silvia Miranda of Clovis and Jacqueline Cook from Albuquerque Public Schools, both in mathematics, and Hope Cahill of Santa Fe Public Schools and Amanda Pacheco-Suazo, also in Albuquerque, in the K-6 science category.
They were selected by a national committee comprised of prominent mathematicians, scientists, mathematics/science education researchers, district level personnel and classroom teachers.
The committee annually selects no more than two teachers in the math and science categories from each state, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. territories as a group (American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and the U.S. Virgin Islands), and schools operated in the