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Alaska’s Department of Education recognized that passion this spring. Leslie was one of five finalists for the 2021 Alaska Teacher of the Year award, among teachers from Anchorage, Utqiagvik, Fairbanks and Kotzebue. The Department of Education named Anchorage teacher Kelly Shrein Teacher of the Year last week.
Leslie, who lives in Seward, has a lot of fans on the Kenai Peninsula. Shona DeVolld is one of them. Both of her daughters have taken classes with Leslie.
“You really get a feeling that Kim makes every student feel like they are her favorite kid,” DeVolld said. “For a teacher to be able to do that over distance is absolutely remarkable.”
Kenai Peninsula Borough mayor feuds with school district over mask policy Author: Sabine Poux, KDLL Published 1 day ago
Share on Facebook and is republished here with permission. With five weeks remaining before summer break, the Kenai Peninsula Borough mayor is publicly challenging the school district on its COVID-19 mitigation protocols. Mayor Charlie Pierce has long been an advocate of keeping mask-wearing a personal choice and opening the peninsula up to business as usual amid coronavirus-induced closures. He turned his focus to the school district last week, saying in a Facebook post “The time has come for us to get rid of all Mask Mandates in schools.”