Bonney Lake High School culinary arts teacher Kahale Ahina was recently selected as the 2013 ProStart Teacher of the Year by the Washington Restaurant Association Education Foundation. He was also nominated for the 2013 National Restaurant Association Educator of the Year, which will be announced in May.
Bonney Lake High School culinary arts teacher Kahale Ahina was recently selected as the 2013 ProStart Teacher of the Year by the Washington Restaurant Association Education Foundation. He was also nominated for the 2013 National Restaurant Association Educator of the Year, which will be announced in May.
ProStart is a program that prepares high school students for careers in the food-service industry, according to the Washington Restaurant Association.
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Kahale Ahina, the culinary arts teacher at Bonney Lake High School, recently was selected as the 2013 ProStart Teacher of the Year by the Washington Restaurant Association Education Foundation.
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Forrest McKinnis, a career and technology teacher, was named 2012-13 Secondary Teacher of the Year by the Washington Association for Learning Alternatives, according to a release from the Richland School District.
McKinnis has been a key part of the science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics, or STEAM, program at Three Rivers HomeLink, which is an alternative school with about 400 students.
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