State names 2023 Instructor of the 12 months
Treaty Rock Elementary Faculty trainer Karen Lauritzen is Idaho’s 2023 trainer of the yr.
State superintendent Sherri Ybarra shocked Lauritzen Thursday morning with the information, together with balloons and a $1,000 examine, the State Division of Training introduced in a press launch.
Luaritzen hopes to be an “ambassador between academics, dad and mom and our communities,” she stated in her software for the award. “Our communities, state and nation would profit from relationship constructing that begins in our humble public college lecture rooms. I might be honored to prepared the ground!”
A blue ribbon panel chosen Lauritzen from a pool of 13 finalists. The title makes her a spokesperson for Idaho educators — and secures her nomination for the Nationwide Instructor of the 12 months award.
Lauritzen has taught on the Submit Falls-based elementary college since 2012. She has served on Treaty Rock’s behavioral management groups and was the college’s personal trainer of the yr in 2021.
Throughout her 20-year profession, Lauritzen has labored in Arizona and Alaska. She is the vp of the Submit Falls Training Affiliation, a founding member of Residents for Submit Falls Colleges and has “efficiently advocated” for college levies, the SDE’s announcement reads.
Lauritzen is a 2002 graduate of the College of Fairbanks in Alaska and holds a Grasp of Arts in Particular Training from Indiana’s Ball State College. She is ending up her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from the College of Idaho.
Treaty Rock principal Katrina Kramer stated Lauritzen connects along with her college students “on a private degree (and creates) a optimistic classroom group the place college students are honored for his or her contributions and work onerous to enhance themselves.”
“On prime of planning superb classes, Mrs. Lauritzen takes on management roles all through the district and on the state degree,” Kramer added. “She is presented in making connections with folks from all walks of life, in quite a lot of settings.”
Ybarra praised Lauritzen’s work with college students.
“Her capability to deliver actual matters to life within the classroom is unparalleled, and her dedication to creating alternatives for her college students to be taught goes past the classroom partitions,” Ybarra stated.
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