Tag Archive for "Florida teacher of the year"

• July 23, 2018

  Lifelong Learning

  Teachers Who Inspire Us and Bring ‘Joy’

  It’s been a little over a week since the Florida Department of Education recognized more than two dozen of the state’s top teachers, and from that group named Glades County fourth-grade math teacher Joy Prescott as the 2019 Teacher of the Year. But we are still smiling and feeling inspired…

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• August 20, 2019

  Lifelong Learning

  Celebrating the best teachers in Florida

  If you’re among the many parents who recently saw their children off for the first day of the new school year, you totally get how important teachers are. After all, for the next nine months, they’re with our children for eight hours a day – charged with growing their minds…

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• October 4, 2019

  Path to College

  Teacher of the Year offers advice to parents

  Becoming Florida’s Teacher of the Year was never on his radar. In fact, Dr. Dakeyan Chá Dré Graham had big plans to become an anesthesiologist and was concluding his major in microbiology at the University of Florida when he had a change of heart. “My high school band director had…

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• August 18, 2020

  Path to College

  Tips from New Teacher of the Year, a former Florida Prepaid kid

  Florida’s new Teacher of the Year didn’t plan on a career in the classroom. She actually resisted it. Krista Stanley said her parents and older sister are all educators, and everyone told her teaching was her destiny—which is why she majored in business administration at Florida State University. “I just…

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• July 1, 2021

  Path to College

  Celebrating Florida’s 5 Teacher of the Year Finalists

  So much of a child’s academic success depends on their teachers, a group of professionals who just cannot be celebrated enough! One of our special joys each year at Florida Prepaid is serving as the presenting sponsor of the Florida Department of Education Teacher of the Year Program. “I feel…

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• September 14, 2022

  Path to College

  Florida’s 2023 Teacher of the Year Provides Five Tips for Parents

  Melissa Matz was selected as the 2023 Florida Teacher of the Year on July 14, 2022. Melissa began her career in the Sunshine State when she was recruited after graduating from University of Northern Iowa. She attended the “Great Florida Teach-In,” a job fair organized by the Florida Department of…

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