{"id":800100,"date":"2019-10-05T16:43:17","date_gmt":"2019-10-05T22:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=372554"},"modified":"2019-10-05T16:43:17","modified_gmt":"2019-10-05T22:43:17","slug":"summit-school-district-teachers-awarded-60k-from-innovative-teaching-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/summit-school-district-teachers-awarded-60k-from-innovative-teaching-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Summit School District teachers awarded $60k from Innovative Teaching Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"638\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/EducationWebCard-SDN-1024x638.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/EducationWebCard-SDN-1024x638.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/EducationWebCard-SDN-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/EducationWebCard-SDN-768x479.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The Education Foundation of the Summit and Summit School District\u2019s Parent-teacher Organizations have announced winners of the 2019 Eileen Finkel Innovative Teaching Awards. Over $60,000 is being awarded for creative teaching ideas thought up by local teachers for the benefit of SSD students.<\/p>\n<p>Over $100,000 in requests were made, and nearly all requests were granted in whole or part by the \u201cEileen Finkels\u201d awards.<\/p>\n<p>Funded projects include initiatives in literacy, computer science, special needs, art, theater as well as career\/technical education. The following projects are examples of those being funded:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cMetals and Art\u201d will bring Summit High art students to the welding shop thanks to teacher Jacobson Speedy.<\/li>\n<li>Summit High School freshman students will participate in a book study of Neil Degrasse Tyson\u2019s book, \u201cAstrophysics for Young People in a Hurry.\u201d&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Summit High and Summit Middle students will have \u201cBest Buddies Outings\u201d pairing special education students with other students for outdoor adventures thanks to teachers Ms. Scott and Ms. Brock (SMS) and Ms. Garvert (SHS).<\/li>\n<li>Ms. Kirkland is bringing \u201cProfessional Video on the Go\u201d to Summit Middle.<\/li>\n<li>Silverthorne Principal Wacaser is making \u201cHealth and Wellness Connections\u201d for her elementary students.<\/li>\n<li>Ms. Martinez and Ms. Clark (Dillon Valley Elementary), Ms. Larsen (Frisco Elementary), and Ms. Stuhr (Summit Cove Elementary) are teaching new computer coding languages to elementary students.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/efsummit.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/EF_Innovative_Teaching_Awards_2011-2019.pdf\">The entire award list is available here.<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/summit-school-district-teachers-awarded-60k-from-innovative-teaching-awards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Education Foundation of the Summit and Summit School District\u2019s Parent-teacher Organizations have announced winners of the 2019 Eileen Finkel Innovative Teaching Awards. Over $60,000 is being awarded for creative teaching ideas thought up by local teachers for the benefit of SSD students. Over $100,000 in requests were made, and nearly all requests were granted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-800100","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-25 00:18:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}