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Contact: Christina Chapple
Date: 8/27/04
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NEW TEACHER SCHOLARS (ST. TAMMANY) – Michelle Mehrtens and Aprol Rainey, new St. Tammany Parish teachers in Southeastern Louisiana University’s Teacher Scholar Program, recently gathered with their school Link Teachers and Southeastern administrators at an official welcome ceremony for the 2004-2005 participants. From left, front, are Teacher Scholar Program coordinator Sonya Carr and Rainey; middle, Woodlake Elementary School Link Teacher Casey Q. Gleason, Mehrtens, and Southeastern Center for Education Services and Research Director Beth Evans; back, department of teaching and learning interim head Shirley Jacob and College of Education and Human Development Dean Diane Allen.
EIGHT NEW TEACHERS PARTICIPATING IN SOUTHEASTERN TEACHER SCHOLARS PROGRAM HAMMOND – Eight first-year teachers from Tangipahoa, Livingston and St. Tammany parishes have been chosen to participate in Southeastern Louisiana University’s Teacher Scholar program. The Teacher Scholars are, from Tangipahoa Parish, Amanda Hartman and Laura Kendrick, Hammond Westside Upper Elementary; from St. Tammany Parish, Michelle Mehrtens, Magnolia Trace Elementary, and Aprol Rainey, Woodlake Elementary; and, from Livingston Parish, Kirsti Bringhurts and Keriann Jenkins, North Live Oak Elementary, and Kristy Fernandez and Beth Maher, South Live Oak Elementary. Now in its eighth year, the Teacher Scholar program enrolls first year teachers who have been identified as prospective leaders in their profession. The university pays the salaries of the novice educators, who are placed in classrooms in participating local school districts. In addition to teaching, Teacher Scholars also are enrolled in a fast track Master of Education graduate program at Southeastern. School systems release teachers to serve as "Link Teachers," who provide support for the Teacher Scholars and share their real world teaching expertise with students in Southeastern=s teacher preparation program. Recently, the newest Teacher Scholars gathered on campus with their families and friends, Link Teachers, principals, and the Southeastern education professors who head the Teacher Scholar Program, Elizabeth Evans, director of Southeastern's Center for Education Services and Research, and Sonya Carr, coordinator of the Teacher Scholars Program. Jean Krieger, principal of Woodlake Elementary School, said she has found Southeastern Teacher Scholars to be “heads and shoulders above any other applicants” for teaching positions at her Mandeville school. “They come in and are ready to do the job,” she said. “I wish I would have had the program as a new teacher,” added Alexa Hookfin, interim principal of Hammond Westside Upper Elementary. |
