A Montana Avenue home features a cabinet, where passersby can not only browse titles but select teeny paintings from a top-shelf gallery or make their own art.
Just because local students have largely been corralled in online classes for most of the year doesn’t mean teachers haven’t been demonstrating excellence. If anything, virtual instruction has, for many, required an amplification of skill.
To recognize instructors giving it their all throughout the pandemic, two local school districts Newport-Mesa Unified and Huntington Beach Union High recently announced their selections for “Teacher of the Year.”
Newport-Mesa Federation of Teachers picked two educators to receive the honor Dennis Ashendorf, who teaches math at Back Bay/Monte Vista High School and Emily Matthews, a sixth-grade teacher at Davis Magnet school.