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Truman Elementary fifth-grade teacher Juan Renteria celebrates winning district teacher of the year Thursday during the Norman Public Schools Celebration of Excellence at Embassy Suites. Kyle Phillips / The Transcript
Juan Renteria knows he represents something.
As he stood onstage at Norman Public Schoolsâ Celebration of Excellence Thursday, Renteria â the newly-minted district teacher of the year, a son of two parents who immigrated from Mexico, a teacher to 21 fifth graders â told the educators watching that in a difficult year, he brings something important to his students and his district.
âI am eternally grateful for the opportunity to stand in front of a classroom and offer something so profound to our teaching profession: Hope,â said Renteria, who teaches at Truman Elementary. âMe, a young man with immigrant parents, who has dark hair and caramel-colored skin, who speaks multiple languages and wh
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First-grade teacher Morgan Dragg is pictured in her Monroe Elementary classroom Monday. Dragg is in her first year of teaching after her student teaching ended early when the pandemic hit last spring. Kyle Phillips / The Transcript
When the pandemic hit Oklahoma last March, shuttering schools, Morgan Dragg was just a week into her student teaching at Roosevelt Elementary.
Early childhood student teachers like Dragg get two eight-week blocks, giving them time to work with two classrooms and grade levels.
Dragg was looking forward to the transition to her second classroom when schools went on spring break and never returned that school year.