{"id":34694,"date":"2015-01-26T16:05:56","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T21:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=34694"},"modified":"2015-01-26T16:05:56","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T21:05:56","slug":"lee-county-school-district-announces-2015-teacher-of-the-year-finalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2015\/01\/lee-county-school-district-announces-2015-teacher-of-the-year-finalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee County School District <br>Announces 2015 Teacher Of The Year Finalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-34695\" title=\"TeacherofYear2\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/TeacherofYear2-300x186.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/TeacherofYear2-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/TeacherofYear2.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Lehigh Acres has one of those finalists: Elise Leyva, Lehigh Senior High School<\/p>\n<p>Elise Leyva\u00a0has come full circle at\u00a0Lehigh Senior High. She was a graduate of the school and AVID tutor before joining the Lightning Family as a math teacher two years ago. Since then she has been working with a team of four to implement an effective professional learning community to tackle intensive algebra. Along with her team, she attended multiple trainings to prepare including AVID Summer Institute, Kagan Mathematics training, and a variety of educational technology trainings. Together her team researched how to better reach struggling at risk math students. As a result, her team improved their algebra EOC passing rate by 17 percentage points last year. Her commitment to teaching and learning makes her an innovative member of Lehigh Senior High.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Every year the District faces the difficult task of naming the recipient of the Teacher of the Year\u00a0award. What makes it so difficult is the fact that only one of the many devoted and dedicated teachers across the District can be chosen. The District would like to recognize the following five teachers as finalists for this year\u2019s award \u2013 they truly embody the District\u2019s vision of being a world-class school system through their work in our schools each day.<\/p>\n<p>The other four finalists are:<\/p>\n<p>Natalie Noel Siler-Hercek, North Fort Myers Academy for the Arts<\/p>\n<p>Mark Jones, South Fort Myers High School<\/p>\n<p>Kerri McCormick, Manatee Elementary School<\/p>\n<p>Laura Jordan, Caloosa Elementary School<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lehigh Acres has one of those finalists: Elise Leyva, Lehigh Senior High School Elise Leyva\u00a0has come full circle at\u00a0Lehigh Senior High. She was a graduate of the school and AVID&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":34695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34694"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}