Robyn Newton, a physical education teacher at Vergennes Union Elementary School, has been awarded Vermont’s Teacher of the Year award. Newton, who has taught at Vergennes Union Elementary for 27 years, was recognized for her work leading an interdisciplinary unit on the Olympics and securing federal grant money for playground and recreation equipment, according to a Thursday press release. “From using the Olympics to teach students about sportsmanship, competition, world affairs and intercultural competency, to her efforts to bring more funding to physical education and nutrition programs in her district,” Vermont Secretary of Education Dan French said in the press
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Hundreds of students gathered in the Vergennes Union Elementary School gym on Thursday afternoon for their first big assembly since before the pandemic. They had.
Newton is best known for developing an interdisciplinary program centered around the Olympics where students learn about countries using specific lessons in reading, writing and math.
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