All seven finalists for Colorado’s 2024 Teacher of the Year award teach middle school in districts across the state. The state education department will choose a winner in October.
A driven educator named Jimmy Lee Day II has been named Colorado's Teacher of the Year, becoming the first-ever Black male teacher to hold the coveted title.
Technology is a game-changing development in many ways, but touch is the core essence of human interaction. Both are important aspects of the modern educational and professional worlds. We’re depriving ourselves, and more importantly our children, of vital interactions by withdrawing from certain personal physical experiences. A cold, hard screen is not a substitute for real physical experiences, even though we are able to enhance other experiences and focus on other values by capitalizing on tech.