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FWISD Teachers of the Year Dinner will Feature Keynote by Renowned Memory Expert
This year’s Fort Worth ISD Teachers of the Year Dinner is gearing up to become a highly-anticipated event attendees won’t soon forget.
The May 9 ceremony will celebrate 10 District Teacher of the Year finalists for their dedication to students and culminate with the announcement of the 2018 elementary and secondary District Teacher of the Year winners. Ron White, one of the world’s top memory speakers, will give the keynote address.
The dinner, hosted by Central Market H-E-B, will be held at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.
Attendees will include Superintendent of Schools Kent P. Scribner; Fort Worth ISD Board of Education trustees; and Stephen Butt, president of the H-E-B/Central Market Division. The evening will feature student entertainment by the Arlington Heights High School Chamber Orchestra, under the direction of Alejandro Padro-Fuentes, which will perform for attendees before and during dinner.
Mr. White, the keynote speaker, is a two-time USA Memory Champion who once held the record for the fastest individual to memorize a deck of cards. He’s appeared on numerous media programs, including Good Morning America, Stan Lee’s Superhumans on the History Channel, National Geographic’s Brain Games: Meet the Experts, The Martha Stewart Show and The Dr. Oz Show.
After the 9/11 attacks, Mr. White joined the U.S. Navy as a reservist, completing a tour in Afghanistan during 2007. As a tribute to the fallen, he has memorized the names of more than 2,300 American service members killed in Afghanistan. He travels the United States writing the names on a 52-foot long wall from memory. It took 10 months to memorize more than 7,000 words.
A business owner for more than 25 years, Mr. White knows how to relate memory training to maximizing productivity in education and in the business world. He hopes his tips and tricks for advanced memory skills will foster success in the classroom and beyond. In addition to his goal of teaching everyone how they can improve their memory, Mr. White enjoys baseball, country music and Texas.
The District Secondary Teacher of the Year and the District Elementary Teacher of the Year will each receive a $5,000 honorarium from Central Market. The eight finalists will each receive a $1,000 award, also presented by Central Market.
2018 Secondary District Teacher of the Year Finalists are:
Alexandra Checka, seventh-grade English, Applied Learning Academy
Megan Ngo, eighth-grade science and biology, W.P. McLean Middle School
Zachary Reimer, social studies,
Polytechnic High School
Orion Smith, social studies,
Arlington Heights High School
Samuel Wilson, history,
Southwest High School
2018 Elementary District Teacher of the Year Finalists are:
Stacey Barringer, kindergarten,
Western Hills Primary School
Andrew McKenzie, fourth-grade teacher,
North Hi Mount Elementary School
Isabel Moore, fourth-grade reading and writing teacher,
Charles E. Nash Elementary School
Lauren Ruth, first-grade teacher,
Bonnie Brae Elementary School
Laurie Stillwell, librarian,
Burton Hill Elementary School
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