Emily Albee (’06, ’09G, ’12G) says her high school students are often surprised to learn that she wasn’t entirely prepared for college when she started attending the University of Maine.
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Sarah Collins (’08, ’14G), a fourth-grade science teacher at Patricia A. Duran School in Hermon, will get a $25,000 unrestricted cash prize from the Milken Family Foundation, which hands out the awards — sometimes called the Oscars of Teaching — to educators who inspire and uplift, and make a profound difference for students, colleagues and communities.
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Myles Oulette, an alum of the Maine Educational Opportunity Center (MEOC), was selected by the Council for Opportunity in Education to represent educational opportunity center students nationwide in a video celebrating the 50th anniversary of EOCs in the U.S.
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University of Maine alumnus Geoffrey Wingard has been named Maine’s 2022 State History Teacher of the Year, the Bangor Daily News reported.
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University of Maine College of Education and Human Development alumnae Heather Anderson (‘99) and Emily Albee (‘06, ‘09G, ‘12G) have been named finalists for 2023 Maine Teacher of Year.
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Isabelle Hallagan, a rising senior from Falmouth, Maine, has only been a part of the Best Buddies program at UMaine since her junior year but fell in love with it quickly.
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Of the 16 Maine County Teachers of the Year for 2022, six have degrees from the University of Maine.
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The Maine Educational Opportunity Center (MEOC) announced that Kate Michaud is the recipient of the 2022 New England Educational Opportunity Association (NEOA) Rising Star Award.
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Isabelle ‘Isa’ Rios Hernández-Colón (She/Her/Ella) is the 2022 recipient of the Social Justice in Higher Education Award from the graduate programs in higher education at the University of Maine College of Education and Human Development.
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Ethan Mathieu of Sanford, Maine and Tiana Bucknor of Milton, Ontario, Canada are the outstanding graduating student and outstanding graduating international student from the University of Maine College of Education and Human Development for the 2021-22 academic year.
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