Date: Fri 11-Oct-1996

Publication: Bee

Author: DOTTIE

Quick Words:

schools-teachers-excellence

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Three Newtown Teachers Cited For Excellence

The Connecticut State Department of Education recognized 109 teachers with

Celebration of Excellence awards Thursday, September 26 in a ceremony at the

Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury.

Three of those educators who were given awards for creative and effective

classroom projects were Newtown teachers Lorrie Arsenian, Anne Burke and Karen

Martin.

Ms Burke and Ms Martin had worked together at Sandy Hook Elementary School to

develop a classroom project titled, "Growing Together: Harvesting A Garden."

Ms Arsenian, of Newtown Middle School, had developed a "Kids And Media

Communications" unit for her students.

The Celebration of Excellence Program is administered by the State Department

of Education and is funded by the William Casper Graustein Memorial

Fund/Connecticut Center for School Change, SNET, the Connecticut Education

Association, The Connecticut State Federation of Teachers and the State of

Connecticut.

Now in its eleventh year, the program has honored 1,125 teachers and has

recognized 770 projects.

The award-winning learning projects are published and made available to

classroom teachers statewide.