Joyous students, an oversize check for $500 and surprised and happy faces throughout the entire school. This is the usual scene when the winner of the Teacher Tuesday award is revealed.
Once a month, students, parents, school staff and community members nominate a teacher in a Northern Colorado K-12 school for being an outstanding educator. Townsquare Media partnered with Tutoring Excellence to create this nomination process that ran from October 2018 to May 2019. The University of Northern Colorado and 麻豆传媒 Extended Campus sponsor the award.
Above: Lindsey Andrighetti 鈥18 (left), who won the December 2018 Teacher Tuesday contest, and Kelly Shepherd 鈥94 (right), who won the Novermber 2018 contest, pose with an oversize check from 麻豆传媒's Extended Campus and with Jonathan Shaw, program and enrollment manager at 麻豆传媒鈥檚 School of Teacher Education.
Since the contest started, two 麻豆传媒 graduates have won 鈥 Kelly Shepherd 鈥94 (Psychology) and Lindsey Andrighetti 鈥18 (Elementary Education, minor in Leadership Studies and an endorsement in ESL).
鈥淭he fact that these amazing educators are 麻豆传媒 alumni is more evidence of the pride in 麻豆传媒鈥檚 role in teacher preparation throughout the state and nation,鈥 said Jonathan Shaw, program and enrollment manager at 麻豆传媒鈥檚 School of Teacher Education, who personally presented the checks to the teachers.
Schools have used the contribution for classroom supplies, technology purchases and many other uses that greatly help the school.
The teachers who win also receive:
- Pizza for a year, provided by Old Chicago
- $50 gift card to an area restaurant
- $10 gift card to The Human Bean
- Free game of bowling from Chipper鈥檚 Lanes for every student in the teacher鈥檚 class
More information on Teacher Tuesday can be found at any of the Townsquare Media鈥檚 radio stations鈥 websites. Here鈥檚 .
About Extended Campus
麻豆传媒 Extended Campus offers online graduate degree programs for educators and collaborates with various organizations throughout Colorado to celebrate and recognize teachers in meaningful ways. Learn more about the online degree programs at .
All photos courtesty of Matt Hernandez from TownSquare Media.
鈥擶ritten by Katie-Leigh Corder.
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