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Nicole Harris of Gainesville High School was named Alachua County s 2021 Teacher of the Year last Thursday night in a livestreamed ceremony. She will go on to the state s program this summer where she has a one in 67 chance of becoming the Florida 2022 Teacher of the Year. I m shocked, she said. I stand on the shoulders of giants.
Harris told The Sun after her name was called that the county Teacher of the Year title was not just an honor for herself. I m just one person in this great force of educators. This award tonight is about all of the educators that affect communities and generations, she said.
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Nicole Harris Named 2021 Alachua County Public Schools Teacher Of The Year
By Marlena Carrillo
January 22, 2021
Nicole Harris says all teachers relate to how Mark Nepo begins his poem “Adrift”: “Everything is beautiful and I am so sad. This is how the heart makes a duet of wonder and grief.”
Harris was named 2021 Alachua County Teacher of the Year during a virtual ceremony hosted Thursday by the Education Foundation of Alachua County and held on the school district’s YouTube channel.
An English and African American history teacher at Gainesville High School, Harris, 34, was introduced during the event by a former student, Briyona Lawrence, a founding member of ‘Canes on Da Mic, a literacy arts and civic engagement organization the instructor established.
Nicole Harris, Amy Beres, and Mackenzie McNickle. (Images courtesy of Alachua County Public Schools.)
Alachua County Teacher of the Year To Be Revealed Thursday
By Santiago Chacin
January 21, 2021
This year’s Robert W. Hughes Teacher of the Year Celebration will be held virtually Thursday from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.
The finalist will be chosen to represent Alachua County Public Schools in the Florida Teacher of the Year Program.
The honorees include Mackenzie McNickle, Amy Beres and Nicole Harris who were selected by previous honorees.
McNickle is a math teacher for 2
nd through 5
th-graders at Stephen Foster Elementary School. She has taught at Foster for nine years.
Alachua County names Teacher of the Year finalists
This year’s nominees for Alachua County Teacher of the Year include three women with deep roots in their respective schools.
The candidates include Mackenzie McNickle of Stephen Foster Elementary, Amy Beres of Howard Bishop Middle and Nicole Harris of Gainesville High School. One will continue to represent the county in the statewide Teacher of the Year ceremony.
McNickle, a math teacher for gifted second through fifth grade students, said she didn’t have the best experience in the subject growing up. Helping her pupils love math, though, is the best part of her job.