Dawbarn Awards introduced to educators in Staunton, Waynesboro, Augusta County
STAUNTON — Ten spot educators were honored as Dawbarn Instruction Award recipients Thursday. A group from the Community Basis of the Central Blue Ridge astonished the recipients at their educational institutions, celebrating the awards.
Dawbarn Schooling Award recipients receive a $10,000 dollars award. To date, $2 million and 277 awards have been distributed to recipients in the earlier 28 decades.
The Awards have been created in 1992 when the late H. Dunlop “Buz” Dawbarn set up a $100,000 fund at the Group Foundation which he later on included to by way of his estate, for each a release.
“The solitary most critical thing we’ve acquired to do as a culture is educate people,” Dawbarn once mentioned. “Democracy is not going to function in the extensive operate if we do not produce educated citizens.”
Dawbarn Award recipients are chosen for obtaining made a genuine and lasting big difference in the existence of a scholar, according to the release. They also have gone outside of what is created in their occupation description and have enabled pupils to see and achieve their prospective, the release stated.
The 2022 Dawbarn Instruction Award Recipients (bios provided by the Group Basis of the Central Blue Ridge):
Brad Bryant has been the Carpentry Instructor at Valley Profession and Specialized Middle for the very last 4 decades. He was not too long ago chosen as Shenandoah Valley Centre for Innovative Learning’s Trainer of the Year for 2022.
His checklist of group partnerships would seem unlimited and his determination to his students, inspiring.
A former scholar wrote: “Mr. Bryant was hired soon after our school yr commenced. With his professional awareness, we had been in a position to make a property for auction in only 50 percent a year. The 2nd 12 months, he challenged us to build two homes. He gave me the self confidence and additional know-how that I wanted to get to my personalized probable and attain considerably much more than I could have imagined.”
Leon Money is an Educational Aide in the Distinctive Education Department at Buffalo Gap Higher University. He supports pupils ahead of university, after university, and for the duration of his lunch break doing work on tasks, posters, or position apps.
A supervisor explained about him: “Coach Dollars has a reward for identifying and connecting with particular person college students who need a winner, that a person person who accepts and sees them for who they are and who they are able of getting. Mr. Funds is that individual for many students.”
Erica Cason is a fourth-grade teacher at Stuarts Draft Elementary University and was named Augusta County’s Instructor of the Yr for 2021.
She performs unbelievably effectively with each and every scholar, from those people who struggle the most to these who excel in each individual way. She was picked to be on the county’s workforce of Trailblazers and is a existing mentor for the Virginia New Instructor Help Method in which she mentors six first- and next-yr lecturers throughout Virginia in hopes of assisting with instructor retention.
Wanda Hulse is the Career and Technological Education and learning Instructor at Waynesboro Higher Faculty. She teaches Technological Drawing, Sound Modeling I & II, Architectural Drawing, Setting up and Trades, and teaches twin enrollment classes by means of Blue Ridge Community College.
She encourages crucial considering and problem fixing from all students and encourages a team ecosystem. Her classes are often loaded to ability due to the fact of her beneficial mind-set and substantial benchmarks. This calendar year she was the winner of the 2021 Virginia Large University Technologies Training Teacher of the Yr Award.
Melody Puffenbarger is Thomas C. McSwain Elementary School’s librarian. She believes in every single child’s capacity to find out and is masterful at doing work with classroom teachers to integrate grade stage learning. She is intentional in deciding upon textbooks for her library that are inclusive of children with different backgrounds, young children who are racially and ethnically assorted, youngsters with distinct varieties of family members, and of little ones with diverse capabilities.
One child’s father or mother reported: “Melody Puffenbarger is much more than the college librarian she is a chief of a group in which kids can price themselves, every single other, and their achievements in the entire world at significant.”
Samantha Sterrett teaches Culinary Arts and Nourishment and Wellness at Staunton Higher Faculty. She was nominated by many staff members users at Challenge Grows for the reason that of her outreach to them and the ongoing tasks her college students lover on with them. She’s crafted a Farming and Management class along with the Challenge Grows staff.
Fifty percent of the class time took put in her kitchen area and 50 percent at the Challenge Grows farm and the farmer’s market. She is innovating community faculty training and finding creative ways to incorporate Vocation and Complex Training options in her classroom discovering.
Ashley Suddarth has been a paraprofessional at Kate Collins Middle Faculty for eight years and is accountable for assisting the unique training lecturers and students in the eighth grade. In addition to her official obligations, Spice has taken on the part of Classroom Instructor, IT Assistant, Transportation, Front Place of work Secretary, and Behavior Management Specialist.
Just one of her peers claimed that she has loaded in for just about every position in the developing. “She can help make our university experience much more like a loved ones than a location of get the job done. Kate Collins would not be the exact same with no Ashley.”
Beth Teachey has been instructing English for the very last 3 yrs at Valley Academy Regional Alternate School which is the different schooling system, established in 2019, for Waynesboro and Augusta County learners needing extra immediate instruction from their academics.
Her principal shared: “The actuality that she has the skill to find the mechanism to arrive at our students with their attendance, drug problems, and other previous traumas must serve as a testomony to her potential to achieve all pupils no matter of their backgrounds.”
Prior to this position, Beth invested 15 a long time teaching English at Kate Collins Middle University. Beth Teachey was named 2021 Instructor of the Yr for Waynesboro Public Colleges.
Julia City was a fifthp-quality teacher for Clymore Elementary College for 10 years just before going into the situation of STEAM (Science, Technological innovation, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) professional two several years in the past. She evokes her college students and her co-personnel to be progressive, artistic, problem solvers by way of integration of STEAM chances in the core curriculum.
A person of her colleagues stated: “Julia’s higher than and over and above initiatives to show students she thinks in them, just as they are, is a reward to all who cross paths with her. For the reason that of her, I do not question that lots of learners see the very finest version of on their own, which is the pretty finest reward we can give to a single one more.”
Dr. Jelisa Wolfe is the Government Director of Student Solutions for Staunton City Educational facilities. She supervises instructional programming for students with disabilities, oversees each individual school’s counseling section, supervises nurses and scholar overall health, and she is the administrator for the PreK method at Dixon Educational Middle.
Her motivation to traditionally marginalized students is at any time current in her perform and her day by day daily life. A single of her lecturers shared that you can generally hear Wolfe say, “100% of the little ones, 100% of the time. It isn’t often effortless, it is not often very simple, but it is usually the ideal factor to do.”
The Group Basis hopes to host a celebration for award recipients in the fall.
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