“Grow Your Own” is designed to provide innovative, low-cost pathways for high school students to enter the teaching profession. Students looking to become teachers can begin their teaching journey early by earning credits and eventually classroom teaching experience before they graduate high school.
Before Carla Warren became the gingerbread architect and building contractor she is today, she was a mother of two young children who decided it might be a fun project to do together: Make a gingerbread house. Three years ago, Warren and her husband.
What a difference a year makes. In 2020, Gingerbread Spectacular judges created an “Almost Most Spectacular” award for Carla Warren. This year, Warren won the big one: Most Spectacular, for “Santa’s Greenhouse.” The Gingerbread Spectacular continues.
West Virginia K-12 schools are experiencing a teacher shortage in all subjects, but there are five areas where that shortage is seen as critical. Those subjects include math and science, special education, elementary education and counseling and the shortage is felt most in southern counties, according to the West Virginia Department of Education.
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Close up of 2020’s Most Spectacular gingerbread, “ . And Visions of Sugarplums Danced In Their Heads” by Susan Brackett. This ginger had the most bidders during the four-day Gingerbread Spectacular.
One angle of Carla Warren’s “Winter Wonderland” – 2020’s Almost Most Spectacular award winner.
Tops with the kids: this year’s Best Holiday Spirit winner, “Peanuts Christmas” by Sheila Wiken.
“Snow Fun” by St. Andrews Village, this year’s Most Creative gingerbread, delighted gingerbread fans this year.
Addie Barter’s “Holiday Home Wrecker” – awarded 2020’s Best Youth gingerbread – brought lots of laughs.
“Thank you for doing this.”