• District educator selected as a nominee for the Presidential Award
     
    Ann Marie Fitzgerald, the District's Manager of Gifted, IB, and Arts/Enrichment, has been named a state finalist and national nominee for the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching, the highest honor for K-12 teachers of math and science.  Prior to accepting her new position, Ms. Fitzgerald was a 2nd grade teacher at Mount Pleasant Elementary School.
     
    Springer teacher is Art Educator of the Year

    Congratulations to Max Levenson of Springer Middle School, who has been selected as Delaware's Middle Level Art Educator of the Year.

    BHS art teacher Linda Dillon earns scholarship for summer program at Harvard University

    Linda Dillon, an art teacher at Brandywine High School, has earned a scholarship to attend Project Zero at Harvard university this summer.   Project Zero is an educational research group at the Graduate School of Education.  Its mission is to understand and enhance learning, thinking, and creativity in the arts, as well as humanistic and scientific disciplines, at the individual and institutional levels.  Mrs. Dillon will attend in mid-July. 

    Sarah Rusk is BSD's Teacher of the Year
     
    Sarah Rusk, a fifth grade teacher at Hanby Elementary School, has been named the District's Teacher of the Year!   She will compete for the title of Delaware Teacher of the Year in the fall.
     
    Congratulations to all of the building level candidates for their exemplary work and leadership.  They are:
     

    Brandywine High School - Kimberly Flanagan

    Bush Early Education Center/ECAP - Linda Layden-Drake

    Carrcroft Elementary School - Joan Deisher

    Claymont Elementary School - Dana Gioffre

    Concord High School - Karen Phillips

    Forwood Elementary School - Sarah Brizzolara Foster

    Hanby Elementary School - Sarah Rusk

    Harlan Elementary School - Tiffany Green

    Lancashire Elementary School - Jennifer Bojarski

    Lombardy Elementary School - Kim Roop

    Maple Lane Elementary School - Julia Forester

    Mt. Pleasant Elementary School - Lauren Watson

    Mt. Pleasant High School - Andrew Ernst

    P.S. duPont Middle School - Kelly McMillan-Whitaker

    Springer Middle School - Noreen Favorite

    Talley Middle School - Julie Ballance

     
    District teacher selected for Human Rights Award

    Jessie Chen, a District employee and activist in Delaware's Chinese community, has been selected to receive the Human and Civil Rights Award from the Delaware State Education Association.  She will be honored at the annual banquet in mid-May.
     
    The Human and Civil Rights Award is granted annually to honor a Delawarean whose life work has advanced the cause of human and civil rights in Delaware.  Congratulations to Ms. Chen! 

    Forwood nurse in the running for Delaware School Nurse of the Year

    Loretta Weisberg, the school nurse at Forwood Elementary, has been nominated for Delaware School Nurse of the Year for 2012-2013.  This is the second consecutive year that she has received this recognition.
     
    The Delaware School Nurse of the Year will be announced during National Nurses Week, May 6-12.  Good luck, Loretta! 

    Concord science teacher recognized with UD's Robert W. Stegner Award
     
    Congratulations to Dr. John Scali, a science teacher at Concord High School, who has been selected to receive the Robert W. Stegner Award.  The award is presented to a senior or graduate student at the University of Delaware who has demonstrated the outstanding qualities that characterized the late Dr. Stegner: dedication to the teaching profession, a comprehension of the breadth and depth of the science content area, and excellence in teaching.  Dr. Scali, who recently earned his Doctorate, was nominated by two of his professors.
     
     
    Art teacher at Brandywine wins Howard Pyle Award
    Congratulations to Linda Dillon, art teacher at Brandywine High School, who has been chosen to receive the Howard Pyle Award.  The Pyle Award is given by the National Arts Education Association to an outstanding Delaware art educator each year.  Ms. Dillon will receive her honor at the annual banquet of the Delaware Art Education Association on March 15.
     
    Three BSD educators invited to serve as AP Readers
     
    Sande Caton (Brandywine High School), Steve Rulon (Brandywine High School), and John Schropp (Concord High School) have been invited by the College Board's Advanced Placement Program to serve as AP Readers this year -- three of the four public school teachers who were asked to participate! 
     
    BHS art teacher nominated for statewide award

    Linda Dillon, an art teacher at Brandywine High School, has been nominated for the Howard Pyle Award, the Delaware award through the National Arts Education Association's awards program. 
     
    Ms. Dillon has a Bachelor of Fine Art Education from CW Post College in New York and a Master of Science in Educational Administration from Hofstra University in New York.  She has served as a board member of the Delaware Art Education Association since 2005.
     
     
    BSD educators are among nation's finest!

    The Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST) is the highest recognition that a K-12 mathematics or science teacher may receive for outstanding teaching in the United States. Established by Congress in 1983 and administered for the White House by the National Science Foundation, the Presidential Awards allow for each state to select up to three mathematics teachers and three science teachers as state finalists. 

    The Delaware finalists are:

    Mathematics:

     

    • LeeAnn Connolly, Skyline Middle School, Red Clay Consolidated School District
    • Mary Pinkston, Brandywine High School, Brandywine School District 

    Science:

    • Andrea Connally, Alfred G. Waters Middle School, Appoquinimink School District
    • Susan Gleason, Middletown High School, Appoquinimink School District
    • Michael Kaufmann, Concord High School, Brandywine School District
    Awards are given to mathematics and science teachers from each of the 50 states and four U.S. jurisdictions. The teachers are recognized for their contributions to teaching and learning and their ability to help students make progress in mathematics and science.
     
     
    Two teachers from PS duPont selected for prestigious summer learning program

    The P.S. duPont Middle School STEM Learning Center is pleased to announce that teachers Brooks Twilley and John Singer have been selected by Cornell University in New York and Delaware State University to participate in a weeklong professional development program this summer focusing on Bioenergy.  The teachers were selected as part of the Northeast Bioenergy and BioProducts (NBB) Professional Development for Educators program funded through the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture.  The project was one of two funded through the National Institute of Food and Agriculture's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative, which set up a sustainable bioenergy challenge to support the development of regional systems for the sustainable production of bioenergy and bio-based products.

     

    Teachers were required to participate in a competitive application process to receive a scholarship and attend the professional development program.  The application stressed the importance of a STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) based education. In addition to having skills in those areas, the ideal candidates for the positions would be "excited about the subject matter." Scholarships were based on 1) demonstrated enthusiasm for the topic area (40%), 2) plans to incorporate the program topic/materials into your classroom (40%), and 3) school located in an underserved district (20%).

     

    The workshop will provide full scholarship packages to 10 educators including workshop registration, teaching kits, workbooks to bring back to your classroom, and a stipend of $500 provided after completion of the program to help defray costs of participation. Educators will leave the workshop with the ability to teach basic bioenergy and bioproducts concepts to other teachers and students in their school using prepared lab kits and interactive white board activities provided by the program. The program provides school year follow-up support to NBB Master Teachers (MTs) using the kits and activities in their school.

     

     
Last Modified on September 25, 2012