May 2008
2008 Aggie Teacher Awards
5/15/08 Twenty education students were recently awarded with "Always Expect More of Aggie Teachers" Awards. These awards were presented by Teaching, Learning and Culture Department Head Dennie Smith to recognize the talent of both undergraduate and graduate students in a variety of education programs. Winners were selected based on an innovative accomplishment or a significant impact they had made in the field of teaching and learning during their field experiences or student teaching. Pro ...
Candelaria URSP
5/15/08 Kiki Candelaria, a 2010 early childhood education major in the Department of Teaching, Learning and Culture, was accepted into the Texas A&M University 2008-2009 Undergraduate Research Scholars Program. Candelaria will investigate the role of theatre and embodied pedagogy on the lives of abused and neglected children at Sacred Heart Orphanage in Laredo, Texas. She will work closely with her advisor and art education and visual culture professor B. Stephen Carpenter, II on the s ...
DHG May 08
5/14/08 May 2008 Distinguished Honor Graduates are (front, from left to right) Lindsie O'Neill and Lindsay Nannen, (middle) Kimberly Evans, Ashley Spittler, Sheri Yetter, Krystle Paolini and Brenda Sandoval and (back) Thomas "T.J." Sanders and Josh O'Rear. Not pictured is Jami Lobpries. Five TLAC graduating seniors, Kimberly Evans, Lindsie O'Neill, Josh O'Rear, Krystle Paolini and Ashley Spittler, were recognized as May 2008 Distinguished Honor Graduates at a ceremony in their hon ...
Marshal Aggie Spirit
5/14/08 Ashley Marshal, class of 2007 and a special education major, is the College of Education and Human Development's Faculty Senate Aggie Spirit recipient. Dr. Glenda Byrns, a clinical assistant professor in the educational psychology department, nominated Marshal, who is from Aledo, Texas, for the award. "Ashley has persevered and triumphed over cancer while maintaining a positive outlook and displaying an uncompromising zest for life," wrote Byrns. "During [the fall 20 ...
Davila HEB Award
5/13/08 Anna Davila, a former education major and 2001 graduate, was awarded the 2008 HEB Excellence in Education Award in the Rising Star Secondary Category. Rising Star awards recognize teachers with less than 10 years of experience. "The students I teach are going to be the teachers of my children, and they can't lead where I haven't led them," Davila said. Davila, a sixth-grade math teacher at Sartartia Middle School in Sugarland, was one of eight Texas educators to receive th ...
