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Flour Bluff ISD announced the winners of the district s elementary and secondary Teacher of the Year awards Thursday.
Fifth-grade teacher Jeana Banta from Flour Bluff Intermediate and math teacher Mary Keyes from Flour Bluff High School were surprised by FBISD administrators and members of the Teacher of the Year Selection Committee when they came to their classrooms to inform them they were selected.
Keyes has been in education for 35 years and started out as a paraprofessional. She has been a teacher for 25 years.
“I care about my students and do my best to bring out their best, Keyes said.
FBISD announces teachers of the year
The process is a part of the Texas State Teacher of the Year program that honors outstanding educators.
FBISD
and last updated 2021-05-07 11:24:06-04
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas â The Flour Bluff Independent School District has announced its teachers of the year.
Flour Bluff ISD Administrators and members of the Teacher of the Year Selection Committee surprised Jeana Banta and Mary Keyes as the teacher of the year and secondary teacher of the year, respectively.
Banta, in her 6th year of teaching 5th grade at Flour Bluff Intermediate, prioritizes connecting with her students.
âIt is extremely important for me to know my students,â said Banta. âI try to know their needs in and out of the classroom and that builds that relationship and develops that communication.â
March 6, 2021 7:00 am
Irish Rural Link (IRL) has resumed its computer training classes ‘Getting Citizens Online’ and ‘IT Skills for Farmers’. Due to Covid-19 lockdown restrictions, all physical classes had been suspended since last March. The programme will now recommence online, in keeping with government guidelines.
IRL has delivered the ‘Getting Citizens Online’ basic computer training programme, which is funded by the Department of Environment, Climate and Communications since its inception in 2011 when it was the BenefIT programme.
‘Getting Citizens Online’ is is aimed at people who have never used a computer before, with the objective of being able to use programs such as Microsoft Word; navigating the internet; searching for information; using government services; banking; and sending emails.
Mystery of 60-year-old Alaska tourist photos is solved
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It was an ordinary Friday for Susanna Stevens-Johnson. She woke up in snowy Mountain Village, on the Yukon Delta in Alaska, and checked her Facebook account.
An old school friend had posted a link to a just-published CNN Travel article showcasing beautiful color photos from mid-20th century Alaska under the headline: “Do you know the mystery behind these Alaska travel photos?”
A Yup’ik Alaskan who grew up in and around Mountain Village, Stevens-Johnson was intrigued. She clicked the link and read how German creative director Jennifer Skupin found a box of slides at a Dutch flea market back in 2008, digitized them, and discovered stunning shots taken across the then-newly inaugurated US state.