Angela Rico
a 6th grade teacher at Rancho Viejo Elementary, was the recipient of the 2008 Newspapers in Education Teacher of the Year award Monday at the Yuma Art Center.
Photo by Ryan Brennecke
Congratulations to our 2008 NIE Teacher of the Year...
Angela Rico
"Several times in the year students or family members would appear in the paper and it wasn't always great things. But whatever it was they always learned to lean on each other and that they had one another for support."
- Angela Rico on using the newspaper to help her students understand compassion.
Rico confided that despite standing in front of a class every day, she was shaking when presented her $1,000 gift card and Freedom Communications Inc.'s "marvelous" apple trophy.
Previous Winners: 2000-2001: Nancy
Kasee, San Pasqual Elem.
2001-2002: Deanna Peterson, Rancho Viejo
2002-2003: Bob Delacroix, Centennial Middle
2003-2004:
Judy Newman ,
Antelope High
2004-2005:
Debra Ullery ,
Az-Tec High School
2005-2006: Cherylholly Baron, AmeriSchools Academy
2006-2007: Gary Southworth, Woodard Junior High School
2007-2008: Angela Rico, Rancho Viejo Elementary School
For more information on the Banquet, or how to become
a NIE Teacher of the Year, please contact
us.
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