³Ô¹ÏÁÔÆæ alumna receives the Outstanding Beginning Teacher Award
On Tuesday, April 17, recent ³Ô¹ÏÁÔÆæ alumna Samantha Garcia is receiving the Outstanding Beginning Teacher Award in Springfield at the Illinois Association of Colleges of Teacher Education (IACTE) conference. This honor is bestowed on a beginning teacher during the first three years of practice.
This will be the first time in ³Ô¹ÏÁÔÆæ history that an education student has been recognized at the state level!
A 2016 elementary education graduate, Garcia currently teaches the second grade at Our Lady of the Snows Elementary School in Chicago. Her mission as a bilingual and bicultural first-year teacher is to build a culturally and socially inclusive classroom that prepares all for a diverse democracy.
Join the Education Department in congratulating Samantha Garcia on this great accomplishment!