{"id":801465,"date":"2019-11-17T18:00:09","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T01:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=374634"},"modified":"2019-11-17T18:00:09","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T01:00:09","slug":"chris-hall-named-outstanding-educator-by-summit-foundation-philanthropy-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/chris-hall-named-outstanding-educator-by-summit-foundation-philanthropy-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Hall named outstanding educator by Summit Foundation philanthropy awards"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Summit High School Library Information Specialist Chris Hall has been named Outstanding Educator by the Summit Foundation for its annual philanthropy awards.<\/strong>
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BRECKENRIDGE \u2014 The Summit Foundation has named Chris Hall, library information specialist at Summit High School, as 2019\u2019s Outstanding Educator as part of the foundation\u2019s annual philanthropy awards.<\/p>\n

Hall has been an educator in the Summit School District for 30 years. Hall moved to Summit in 1988, and started working in the district when she got her first job at Dillon Valley Elementary in 1989. For nine years, Hall taught third and fifth graders, before moving on to become a media specialist and librarian at the school for 12 years.<\/p>\n

Hall said she took a year off and travelled to Nepal, fully intending to come back to Dillon Valley Elementary. When she came back, she was offered a position at Summit High School\u2019s library.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought, \u2018No thank you, not in a million years,\u2019\u201d Hall said, adding that she didn\u2019t think she would be able to handle high schoolers. But it was a good job and she knew the principal at the time, so she took it. <\/p>\n

She\u2019s been at the school media center and library ever since. For the last nine years has been helping high school students hone their research skills, teach them how to find and use information databases, how to do citations and avoid plagiarizing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI brought a little bit of the elementary to the high school,\u201d Hall said, calling high school kids \u201cthe nicest people ever.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI am the problem solver,\u201d she said. \u201cI am there if they can\u2019t figure something or can\u2019t find something they\u2019re looking for. And if I can\u2019t solve, it I will try to find someone who can.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hall\u2019s longevity in the district has meant that she\u2019s experienced the joy of seeing kids she taught and helped as children grow up, people who she helped shape and form as they became adults.<\/p>\n

\u201cI worked at Dillon Valley, and after I went to the high school I was able to see a lot of kids from DVE graduate,\u201d Hall said. \u201cThey turn into mini adults. You get to see these kids achieve their potential. And I think that\u2019s the nature of being a teacher, to make sure that all kids succeed and make sure you\u2019re challenging them to go far.\u201d<\/p>\n

Working for 30 years in a single school district is a feat that very few people can cast a claim to. Hall said that despite all the years she\u2019s been at Summit schools, the job never got old, due in part to the ability to transition between schools and grade levels.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe one thing that kept me going was the change,\u201d Hall said. \u201cChange is important. It\u2019s part of the love of learning.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hall is following that philosophy and making her own big change. After 30 years helping students become better people, Hall will be hanging up her spurs and retiring. She\u2019s still considering what to do, but she\u2019s excited for whatever next adventure she decides to take on next.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a little bit frightening, trying to figure out the next steps,\u201d Hall said.<\/p>\n

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Summit High School Library Information Specialist Chris Hall has been named Outstanding Educator by the Summit Foundation for its annual philanthropy awards.Courtesy Joe Kusumoto BRECKENRIDGE \u2014 The Summit Foundation has named Chris Hall, library information specialist at Summit High School, as 2019\u2019s Outstanding Educator as part of the foundation\u2019s annual philanthropy awards. Hall has been […]<\/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-801465","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-01 18:39:03","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\/801465","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=801465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}