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Nominated were Dr. Jan King, Marilyn Yoder and Anne Boyette.
King, an assistant superintendent with the Henderson County Public Schools, has been nominated for the state DKG Founders Award reserved for women who have made outstanding contributions beyond the local and regional levels.
In March King will have spent 28 years serving the students and staff of Henderson County public schools with a wide range of classroom experience and educational leadership. She began her education career with the school system in 1992 as a classroom teacher at Dana Elementary, Apple Valley Middle and West Henderson High schools. She then became a specialist for the Academically and Intellectually Gifted programs at West Henderson High, Hendersonville Middle, Bruce Drysdale Elementary and Edneyville Elementary schools, before serving as an instructional coach for all the county s high schools.
Ann Marie Gunter; World Languages Consultant
Program Description
North Carolina Public Schools serve approximately 1.5 million students in grades K–12, in 115 school districts and over 160 charter schools. Enrollment in Chinese language instruction has grown significantly in traditional and immersion classrooms as well as online. This profile describes the growth of Chinese language instruction in the state and the steps taken by the State Board of Education, the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, and other state partners that have contributed to that growth.
In the 2005–2006 school year, the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction was asked by a US senator to provide a summary of Chinese instruction available in public schools in the state. The answer was 323 students in two districts; in 2014, there were 12,273 students, and Chinese has the 4th highest enrollment of the 17 languages offered. Chinese immersion programs are offered in 10 programs in 7 dis