A Lakewood school and a Tacoma teacher will be honored at the 2012 Golden Apple Awards ceremony Feb. 1.
A Lakewood school and a Tacoma teacher will be honored at the 2012 Golden Apple Awards ceremony Feb. 1.
The awards, from KCTS9 public television in Seattle, will recognize Southgate Elementary School in Lakewood’s Clover Park School District and teacher Kathleen Casper, who works with highly capable students in Tacoma Public Schools.
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A Lakewood school and a Tacoma teacher will be honored at the 2012 Golden Apple Awards ceremony Friday.
When Stephanie Strow tells people she teaches seventh grade, she usually can predict the response.
They either tell the Fairhaven Middle School teacher that she's brave for tackling such a notoriously tricky age or wonder aloud why, of all the grades, she chose seventh.
She always imagined herself teaching fifth grade, she said, but after her first day teaching seventh, she fell in love.
The Richland and Pasco school districts have announced the winners of the 2013 Crystal Apple Award in their schools.
In Richland, Deborah Madison, a fifth-grade teacher in the Highly Capable program at Lewis & Clark Elementary School, and Paul Mayer, a government/leadership teacher and basketball coach at Hanford High School, won the award.
In Pasco, Judy Church, a fourth-grade teacher at Rowena Chess Elementary School, and Raquel Martinez, biology teacher and chairwoman of the science department at Pasco High School, were given the annual honor.
The Washington State PTA recently awarded 29 graduating seniors scholarships for post-secondary education. The WSPTA awards up to $60,000 to help defray costs of the first year of post-high school education based on financial need, academic performance, leadership and community service.
A high school senior from Belfair, a senior from Lakewood and a junior from Tacoma have been awarded the top Youth of the Year honors by the Boys & Girls Clubs of South Puget Sound.
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