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RESIDENCE New Franklin
COLLEGE Kent State University for bachelor and master of education.
FAMILY My husband, Steve, and I have three adult children. Our oldest daughter and her husband are expecting their first child, our first grandchild, this spring. Our second daughter is engaged and is planning a summer wedding. Our son, the “baby,” is a college junior. We have one very spoiled rescue dog, Opie, and an 18-year-old American Quarter Horse mare named Skeeter.
WHAT SUBJECT DO YOU TEACH? I currently teach math and science to 9- and 10-year-olds in fourth grade. I have been teaching fourth grade at Jackson for 10 years. I was a reading tutor for two years prior to teaching full time at Jackson.
CANTON Massive changes in the way Stark County’s largest school district educates its students are coming.
The five-member Canton City school board on Wednesday approved the district’s Design for Excellence plan, which reconfigures nearly every school building in an effort to reduce operating costs while providing more educational opportunities for students. The changes will be in place when its first students return Aug. 19. The first day for most students will be Aug. 20.
To see a copy of Wednesday s presentation, click here: Design for Excellence
Two changes in the plan – affecting the district s year-round school, AIM Academy, as well as Belden and Patrick elementary schools – were approved, but continue to be reviewed as they were not part of the original plan presented on Jan. 27. A virtual community meeting for Belden and Patrick parents will be held at 6:30 p.m. March 2 and a virtual meeting for AIM families will be held at 6:30 p.m. March 4. Log-on inf
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Amie Payne s six-year-old daughter, a kindergartner at Findley Elementary, surrounds herself with some of her favorite fluffy friends as she learns remotely at home.
Tricia Stanton, a third-grade teacher with Canton City Schools, pulls out all the stops to keep her students engaged as they learn from home on computer screens. From glittery gloves to bells, fancy wall drops and more she has it all.
Tricia Stanton
Tricia Stanton, a third grade teacher with Canton School s new Bulldog Virtual Academy, says that she has experienced growth since she began teaching virtually and has been able to spread her wings.
Like Stanton, all the teachers in Canton were trained to teach physically in the classroom. But very quickly, over the past year, many have had to learn a whole different set of skills to teach virtually.
Three months after Jeff Talbert conducted a virtual listening tour to hear from residents, the Canton City Schools superintendent was back on tour answering their questions about the district’s sweeping restructuring proposal.
Talbert spent more than five hours during five virtual community meetings over the past two weeks fielding questions about the Design for Excellence plan, which restructures each of the district’s 22 school buildings in an effort to reduce the number of buildings and amount of staff to match declining enrollment while giving students more educational opportunities.
“It was good to hear from the community about what was important to them, said Talbert during an interview with The Canton Repository on Friday.