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The free, six-week summer literacy and cultural enrichment initiative serves children in communities without quality academic enrichment programming. ....
Credit Escambia County School District A third-grade teacher at Montclair Elementary School has been named Escambia County’s Teacher of the Year. “I’ve always just naturally wanted to teach,” said Briana McCreary, and she has been doing just that, teaching, for as long as she can remember. “Whether it was teaching my teddy bears, my baby dolls, upgraded to my younger cousins, I teach dance through praise dances with my church, any opportunity. Vacation bible school, I was always trying to lead and teach somebody something.” Back when she was attending Tate High School, McCreary participated in the early Childhood Academy which solidified her drive to become a teacher. But even before that, she says found some roles models who guided her to education. ....
Feb. 11 is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. In a guest column, the founder of a STEM-based nonprofit says as Florida moves toward a STEM future, we must be proactive in engineering a meaningful place for women within it. ....
January 30, 2021 Escambia County’s Teacher of the Year is Briana McCreary. McCreary has been a teacher since 2013 and currently teaches third grade at Montclair Elementary School. As a life-long learner, McCreary uses her knowledge to be a better teacher. “During my studies and research into the school-wide performance, I identified a trend in the school FSA performance in which the percentage of proficient female students was 82% lower than the percentage of proficient male students in mathematics,” wrote McCreary in her application for Teacher of the Year. “This sparked my interest in creating an afterschool program, ‘She Counts’, which would increase the interest and skill level in mathematics for female students within the testing grades. Through this program the students are conducting novel studies of females who have advanced in math or science, participating in S.T.E.M. projects, and being tutored on essential math skills.” ....