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SANTA FE – Four New Mexico teachers have been named state finalists for the 2021 Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching, K-6.
The four finalists are teachers Silvia Miranda of Clovis and Jacqueline Cook from Albuquerque Public Schools, both in mathematics, and Hope Cahill of Santa Fe Public Schools and Amanda Pacheco-Suazo, also in Albuquerque, in the K-6 science category.
They were selected by a national committee comprised of prominent mathematicians, scientists, mathematics/science education researchers, district level personnel and classroom teachers.
The committee annually selects no more than two teachers in the math and science categories from each state, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. territories as a group (American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and the U.S. Virgin Islands), and schools operated in the United States and overseas by the Department of Defense Education Activity.