11/9/2022
Two longtime supporters of the Gwinnett Heat — Gwinnett County Public Schools’ Adapted Sports program — were honored at the recent American Association of Adapted Sports Programs’ 2022 ASPIRE Awards.
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10/27/2022
Three Gwinnett County Public Schools educators have earned recognition by the Georgia Art Education Association as some of the top art educators in the state, GCPS officials recently announced.
Stephanie Birmingham of Five Forks Middle School is GAEA’s Middle School Art Educator of the Year. Elizabeth Debban of Brookwood High School is GAEA’s Secondary Art Educator of the Year, and Loria Crews of Brookwood High School is this year’s National Art Honor Society Award winner.
10/12/2022
Two educators from Grayson High School — Dr. Wendy Dyer, a career and technical education teacher, and school counselor Taqueesa Davis — have been recognized by Yale University as recipients of the 2022 Yale Educator Award by the Yale Office of Undergraduate Admissions.
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10/12/2022
And, then there were six.
Gwinnett County Public Schools announced the six finalists for the district-wide teacher of the year on Tuesday afternoon. District officials will chose, from this group, the district-wide high school, middle school and elementary school teachers of the year and ultimately GCPS' overall teacher of the year.
10/12/2022
Gwinnett County Public Schools as a district saw more students graduate at the end of the 2021-2022 school year than it did a year earlier, fueled by half of the system’s high schools raising their rates, according to new graduation rate data released by the state.
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10/12/2022
For more than 75 years, the Fulbright Program has sought to improve intercultural relations and diplomacy with a host of scholarship offerings, and the program awards both students and teachers — some 400,000 in its distinguished history — with the opportunity to study, teach and conduct research on an international level.
In September, Michael Nguyen-Quan, a math teacher at Meadowcreek High School, was honored by the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board by being named a Fulbright Teacher for Global Classrooms Project Award winner.
