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Meeting Date:
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5/5/2022 - 6:30 PM
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Category:
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Communications & Addresses to the Board
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Type:
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Info
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Subject:
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Teacher of the Year: Alexandra Bender, John Adams Elementary School
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ACPS 2025 Strategic Plan Goal:
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Goal 2: Instructional Excellence ACPS will ensure that all students have access to and engagement with high-quality instruction. Goal 5: Family and Community Engagement ACPS will ensure that all families and community members feel welcomed, respected, and valued.
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Funding Source or Fiscal Impact (where applicable)
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Agenda Item Summary:
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The 2021-22 ACPS Teacher of the Year recipient is Alexandra Bender, who is in her ninth year of teaching first grade at John Adams Elementary School. Ms. Bender is a fierce advocate for the needs of her students as she helps them to realize their own success in school. In the classroom, Ms. Bender reinforces positive behavior, encourages academic progress and finds unique ways to celebrate the individual talents and personalities of each of her students. Her knowledge and skills have enabled Ms. Bender to effectively support her English Language Learners in meeting grade-level objectives. She also has strived to help her students transition to life in the U.S., especially with our incoming students who are refugees from Afghanistan. This deserving honoree also uses the arts integration strategies learned in her coursework through the Kennedy Center’s Changing Education Through the Arts to engage her students in arts integrated learning. Ms. Bender is more than teacher of the year to her students who call her their “favorite teacher of all time.”
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Recommended By:
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Signed By:
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Final-Clerk of the Board - Proxy
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