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Nov 23, 2023

SS Dixon Primary feels like home for Carla Rials

Carla Rials has sort of come full circle at SS Dixon Primary.

She attended school here as a child. Her son went through school here as well. And now, she’s the teacher of the year here.

Nov 22, 2023

SS Dixon Intermediate Teacher of the Year, Bethany Holley

Bethany Holley is from the area and did her student teaching at SS Dixon Intermediate School. She then landed a job there out of college and has been at the school ever since.

This is year No. 25 for Holley and it’s been a special one so far as she was recently named the school’s teacher of the year.

Nov 17, 2023

Rhodes Elementary’s Fender teaches life skills with coffee cart

For Haley Fender, Rhodes Elementary School’s 2023 Teacher of Year selection, being a teacher was never a question.

“My mom has stories of me pretending to (be a) teacher with my little sister like sitting her down with stuffed animals and pretending to read a book,” Fender said. “Its just kind of what I always wanted to do. There was never a lightbulb moment.”

Nov 16, 2023

Teacher of the Year: Starkie’s children help lead him to Avalon classroom

George Starkie took a roundabout road to the classroom, but Avalon Middle School’s Teacher of the Year is finally right where he belongs.
Nov 10, 2023
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Mediacom offers $60,000 in scholarships to high school seniors

West Des Moines, IA – Nov. 10, Mediacom Communications is offering $60,000 in scholarship support for high school seniors who plan to obtain further education. The scholarship program is in its 23rd consecutive year and Mediacom’s investment will award $1,000 World Class Scholarships to 60 high school seniors. 
Nov 10, 2023

Wallace Lake K-8’s Regina Clapper teaches ‘largest classroom in the school’

When Regina Clapper, Wallace Lake K8’s media specialist and librarian, describes what it was like finding out she was the first teacher of the year in the new school’s history, she needs only two words.
Nov 9, 2023

Teacher of the Year: Sister inspires Hinote to explore education

At a time when the news media is reporting record numbers of teachers leaving education, Lauren Hinote chose to trade her career as an insurance agent for the classroom.

It’s worked out so far; earlier this year, her peers chose her as Chumuckla Elementary School’s Teacher of the Year. The first-grade teacher blames her sister, Ashley Drinkard, a third-grade teacher at S.S. Dixon Intermediate School.

Nov 7, 2023

Amber Murray has special appreciation for special education

Amber Murray loves what she does.

“I can’t imagine having another career,” she told the Press Gazette last week. “I live for the moments when a student has struggled with a concept for days or weeks, then it clicks, and it makes sense to them. It is so empowering knowing that you helped them learn a new concept or skill, and I get to see their self-confidence blossom.”

Oct 30, 2023

Hobbs Middle’s Swartz passionate about math, helping students

For the past nine years, Rachel Swartz has been a prominent figure at Hobbs Middle School in Milton.

Teaching Algebra and geometry honors courses to eighth graders as well as advanced math to seventh graders, Swartz has become a teacher loved by students and faculty alike. So much so, she was named Hobbs Middle’s choice for teacher of the year, the first time she has received the honor.

Oct 24, 2023

Pea Ridge Elementary School students turn into investigators at STEAM event

Everyone loves a good detective story. On Tuesday, Oct. 17, at Pea Ridge Elementary School’s STEAM night, students had the chance to be a part of their own. STEAM is short for science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics.

The theme of this year’s STEAM night was “The Mystery of the Missing Picture,” in which students had to solve the fictional crime of who ‘stole’ principal Kimberly Crate’s picture. The goal of a STEAM night is to create a hands-on event to get students excited about learning science and math.

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