Last week, Joseph Bostic, Jr. was named Montgomery County Public Schools’ (MCPS) 2021-2022 Teacher of the Year.
Bostic, originally from Macon, Georgia, is the math content specialist and eighth-grade team leader at Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School in Germantown. He understands hardship and said it’s someone’s untold story that often sets people free.
“I feel like my story connects to most of the students in the county, because I’ve been there. I’ve been homeless, I had to deal with poverty, so I get it,” Bostic told MyMCM. “I understand that there are things that we have to overcome. But it’s that untold story that can set a lot of people free.”
For the newly food insecure, help that preserves dignity
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Odessa Davis is used to helping families as a public school teacher and summer camp director in Maryland’s Montgomery County. But when the pandemic forced camps to close, the single mother realized her own family was in need. So she swallowed her pride and sought help to feed her 11-year-old son.
Ms. Davis is one of many Americans who struggled to put food on the table for the first time during the past year. As job losses skyrocketed, the number of Americans facing food insecurity reached 265 million in 2020, according to a Northwestern University estimate.
Joseph Bostic, Jr. Via MCPS.
Joseph Bostic, Jr., the math content specialist and eighth-grade team leader at Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School in Germantown, is the Montgomery County Public Schools’ (MCPS) 2021-2022 Teacher of the Year.
“Thank you to MCPS for believing in a young man from a small town in Georgia,” Bostic said after he was announced the winner during a virtual event Wednesday. Now, he is in the running for Maryland Teacher of the Year.
According to MCPS, Bostic developed an action plan that reduced truancies at the Germantown school from more than 33% to below 25%.
“To everyone listening tonight, remember: regardless of the label assigned to you, you can overcome, you matter and you are all worth it,” he said.
Nine MCPS Students Awarded Corporate-Sponsored National Merit Scholarships
Nine Montgomery County Public School (MCPS) seniors from five high schools have been awarded corporate-sponsored scholarships in the first round of the annual National Merit Scholarships.
These scholarships, which range from $1,000 to $10,000 per year, are financed by corporations, company foundations, and other business organizations. The scholarships may either be renewable for four years of undergraduate study or one-time awards.
The students are among approximately 1,000 seniors nationwide to be selected as part of the 66th annual National Merit Scholarship Program, according to a National Merit Scholarship Corporation news release. The scholars were selected from a pool of 17,000 students who were finalists in the National Merit Scholarship competition and met the criteria of their scholarship sponsors.
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