For the third year in a row, the Pulaski County Special School District is participating in the Arkansas Teacher of the Year program.
Through a rigorous selection process, each of the district’s 25 brick-and-mortar schools as well as the DRIVEN Virtual Academy and Center of Innovation selected one educator as their school teacher of the year. The following teachers were selected to represent their school based on nominations and recommendations from their peers.
A panel made up of District and school administrators will review the school-level teachers of the year to determine the district Teacher of the Year. The district winner will be announced at a celebration banquet on Wednesday, May 17.
The teachers, by school, are:
BAKER ELEMENTARY: Natalie Casavechia
CATO ELEMENTARY: Katie Shuptrine
CHENAL ELEMENTARY: LaCynthia Virden
COLLEGE STATION ELEMENTARY: Courtney Thomas
CRYSTAL HILL ELEMENTARY: LaTonya Gillmore
DAISY BATES ELEMENTARY: Darice Nesmith
HARRIS ELEMENTARY: Kenya Brown
LANDMARK ELEMENTARY: Latasha Kimbrough Tate
LAWSON ELEMENTARY: Ashley Davis
OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY: Jarred White
OAKBROOKE ELEMENTARY: DeAnn White
PINE FOREST ELEMENTARY: Laura Sergeant
ROBINSON ELEMENTARY: LaCresha Davie
SHERWOOD ELEMENTARY: Whitney Bohannon
SYLVAN HILLS ELEMENTARY: Courtney Pigg
WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON ELEMENTARY: Maija Jones
MAUMELLE MIDDLE: Diego Lozano
MILLS MIDDLE: Charde Wilson
ROBINSON MIDDLE: Wendy Kohler
SYLVAN HILLS MIDDLE: Carli Cooper
SYLVAN HILLS JUNIOR HIGH: Hunter Plante
MAUMELLE HIGH: Vernetta Sanders
MILLS UNIVERSITY STUDIES HIGH: Lakesha Foote
ROBINSON HIGH: Ben Light
SYLVAN HILLS HIGH: Melissa Duncan
CENTER OF INNOVATION: Terisa Liberty
DRIVEN VIRTUAL ACADEMY: Lisa Romero
Lillia Green Initiated into Omicron Delta Kappa: Lillia Green, of North Little Rock, was recently initiated into the University of South Alabama Circle of Omicron Delta Kappa, the National Leadership Honor Society. The Society welcomed 787 new initiates from 32 universities during March 2023. Students initiated into the Society must be sophomores, juniors, seniors, or graduate/professional students in the top 35% of their class, demonstrate leadership experience in at least one of the five pillars, and embrace the ODK ideals. Fewer than five percent of students on a campus are invited to join each year.
PCSSD names school-level Teachers of the Year
PCSSD names school-level Teachers of the Year
PCSSD names school-level Teachers of the Year
For the third year in a row, the Pulaski County Special School District is participating in the Arkansas Teacher of the Year program.
Through a rigorous selection process, each of the district’s 25 brick-and-mortar schools as well as the DRIVEN Virtual Academy and Center of Innovation selected one educator as their school teacher of the year. The following teachers were selected to represent their school based on nominations and recommendations from their peers.
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A panel made up of District and school administrators will review the school-level teachers of the year to determine the district Teacher of the Year. The district winner will be announced at a celebration banquet on Wednesday, May 17.
The teachers, by school, are:
BAKER ELEMENTARY: Natalie Casavechia
CATO ELEMENTARY: Katie Shuptrine
CHENAL ELEMENTARY: LaCynthia Virden
COLLEGE STATION ELEMENTARY: Courtney Thomas
CRYSTAL HILL ELEMENTARY: LaTonya Gillmore
DAISY BATES ELEMENTARY: Darice Nesmith
HARRIS ELEMENTARY: Kenya Brown
LANDMARK ELEMENTARY: Latasha Kimbrough Tate
LAWSON ELEMENTARY: Ashley Davis
OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY: Jarred White
OAKBROOKE ELEMENTARY: DeAnn White
PINE FOREST ELEMENTARY: Laura Sergeant
ROBINSON ELEMENTARY: LaCresha Davie
SHERWOOD ELEMENTARY: Whitney Bohannon
SYLVAN HILLS ELEMENTARY: Courtney Pigg
WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON ELEMENTARY: Maija Jones
MAUMELLE MIDDLE: Diego Lozano
MILLS MIDDLE: Charde Wilson
ROBINSON MIDDLE: Wendy Kohler
SYLVAN HILLS MIDDLE: Carli Cooper
SYLVAN HILLS JUNIOR HIGH: Hunter Plante
MAUMELLE HIGH: Vernetta Sanders
MILLS UNIVERSITY STUDIES HIGH: Lakesha Foote
ROBINSON HIGH: Ben Light
SYLVAN HILLS HIGH: Melissa Duncan
CENTER OF INNOVATION: Terisa Liberty
DRIVEN VIRTUAL ACADEMY: Lisa Romero
Lillia Green Initiated into Omicron Delta Kappa: Lillia Green, of North Little Rock, was recently initiated into the University of South Alabama Circle of Omicron Delta Kappa, the National Leadership Honor Society. The Society welcomed 787 new initiates from 32 universities during March 2023. Students initiated into the Society must be sophomores, juniors, seniors, or graduate/professional students in the top 35% of their class, demonstrate leadership experience in at least one of the five pillars, and embrace the ODK ideals. Fewer than five percent of students on a campus are invited to join each year.