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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Kelsey Stoyanova remembers when it hit her that she’d been named 2022 Maine Teacher of Year. It was when she was entering the gym at Hampden’s Reeds Brook Middle School for an assembly where the big announcement was taking place.
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Miranda Snyder of Brimfield, Massachusetts is the 2021 Outstanding Graduating Student in the College of Education and Human Development.
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Lt. Col. Jon Velishka takes another sip of coffee. When giving a 9 a.m. lecture to University of Maine graduate students on complex issues of national security and foreign policy, it helps to be well caffeinated.
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