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Meghan Rice praised for having a lasting, positive effect on students lives.
Meghan Rice.
Kindergarten teacher Meghan Rice at Willard Elementary School in Evanston today was announced as a Golden Apple Award winner, one of 10 teachers across the state receiving the award for excellence in teaching.
The Golden Apple Foundation says 708 Pre-K through 3rd grade teachers were nominated for this year’s awards.
“These outstanding teachers transform the lives of students, schools, and communities over the course of their careers. Their resilience and perseverance in this past year–and their career–-has been nothing short of amazing,” said Golden Apple President Alan Mather. “Our 2021 award recipients will now join us in our mission to impact the lives of even more students by supporting the next generation of highly effective teachers through our two teacher preparation programs – the Golden Apple Scholars and Accelerators programs
For this Concord class, history unfolds right in the middle of their town
âHe wasnât asked to join the war. He joined himself and tried to help the country⦠That was really cool.â
By Thomas Farragher Globe Columnist,Updated April 19, 2021, 2 hours ago
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Sydney Holloman-Pressley with her students at the Willard School, where they conducted research that led to Concord s decision to honor George Washington Dugan, the town s sole Black Civil War soldier.Sydney Pressley/Willard School
CONCORD â As they sat at their fifth-grade desks here at Willard Elementary School, what struck these kids in this history-rich town was the essential unfairness of it all.
(photo courtesy of Land Betterment)
by: Alex Brown, Inside INdiana Business
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Apr 6, 2021 / 04:01 PM EST
FISHERS, Ind. (Inside INdiana Business) – A Fishers-based company has announced plans to repurpose a former elementary school in Kentucky. Land Betterment Corp., which is currently redeveloping the former Landree Mine in Green County, says it plans to transform the school and surrounding property into an ag-tech center with a focus on vertical and greenhouse farming.
Land Betterment is in the process of acquiring the Willard Elementary School building in the city of Hazard, which closed in 2018. The building sits on nearly four acres of land, and the company says its Vertical and Groh subsidiaries will work with Hazard Technical College to “upcycle” the property into a local agricultural tech center.