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dana kellylakeland, fl | YEARS TAUGHT: 1973 - PresentDana believes that teaching is the single most influential factor in the molding of tomorrow for the world at large. It is a teacher’s duty to capitalize on each child’s innate desire to learn and it is crucial that an individualized educational plan be tailored for every child, taking each from where he is, to a new height. Dana also believes that despite their tremendous potential for greatness, we lose our children to mediocrity far too often. Education must be a priority.
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janice gouldchicago, il | YEARS TAUGHT: 1975 - PresentJanice believes that students who experience success in art will gain hope for their future. It can change their self image from one of incompetence to competence. This confidence will not only be present in their school environment, but also through the tough personal growth they have in front of them.
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jane nelsonorlando, fl | Years Taught: 1969 - 2002Jane Bray Nelson conducts her classes with the theory that she is teaching students first and physics second. Jane also believes that her ‘children’ are a living message that she sends to a time and place which she will never see. Her students have won honors from the Physics Olympics, been selected to study at a national research lab, and won the medicine division of the International Science Fair. Three times as many students pass the advanced placement exam as did three years ago. Jane was instrumental in developing the focus school that was granted official countywide magnet school status after only one year. She also was asked to be the teacher-coordinator of the magnet school.
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e. may lindquistbrookville, ks | Years Taught: 1931 - PresentE. May (Pat) Lindquists’ first teaching experience was at a one-room country schoolhouse, Yankee Run, in Ellsworth, Kansas in 1931. Pat describes herself not as retired, but as “retreaded”. After thirty-one years of classroom teaching she has given twenty-three years to substituting, homebound teaching, tutoring, and mentoring. She believes the two biggest educational issues facing American education today are respect and apathy. If respect would be taught beginning in the home, it would carry to the schools, spill into the community, and the nation. The community as a whole, not just schools, must accept responsibility for the preparations of all students to succeed in life.
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lisa crooksolathe, ks | Years Taught: 1981 - presentLisa’s educational career began as a teacher of students who were hearing impaired at the Kansas State School for the Deaf where she taught a variety of grade levels. She is the author of Munchable Math where she combines the students’ love of food with appetizing activities to enhance mathematics, and edible experiments in science which create positive, hands-on learning experiences for her students. Her students are involved in community outreach efforts (including the development of Paws for the Cause and Good Bears of the World “Cub Den.") These outreach efforts have ignited both a passion for learning within each student, as well as instilled a compassion for others. Crooks believes that by touching the lives of her students and fellow colleagues, she is able to transform the aptitudes of the children of today and the teachers of tomorrow.
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