{"id":22677,"date":"2023-04-18T12:50:34","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T16:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/?p=22677"},"modified":"2023-04-18T12:50:34","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T16:50:34","slug":"natalie-mccarthy-outstanding-student-in-elementary-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/2023\/04\/18\/natalie-mccarthy-outstanding-student-in-elementary-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Natalie McCarthy: Outstanding Student in Elementary Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-22678\" src=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2023\/04\/Natalie-McCarthy-Outstanding-Student-in-Elementary-Education-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Natalie McCarthy portrait in an outdoor setting.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2023\/04\/Natalie-McCarthy-Outstanding-Student-in-Elementary-Education-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2023\/04\/Natalie-McCarthy-Outstanding-Student-in-Elementary-Education-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2023\/04\/Natalie-McCarthy-Outstanding-Student-in-Elementary-Education-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2023\/04\/Natalie-McCarthy-Outstanding-Student-in-Elementary-Education-105x70.jpg 105w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2023\/04\/Natalie-McCarthy-Outstanding-Student-in-Elementary-Education-317x211.jpg 317w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2023\/04\/Natalie-McCarthy-Outstanding-Student-in-Elementary-Education-423x282.jpg 423w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2023\/04\/Natalie-McCarthy-Outstanding-Student-in-Elementary-Education-634x423.jpg 634w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2023\/04\/Natalie-McCarthy-Outstanding-Student-in-Elementary-Education-846x564.jpg 846w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2023\/04\/Natalie-McCarthy-Outstanding-Student-in-Elementary-Education-951x634.jpg 951w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2023\/04\/Natalie-McCarthy-Outstanding-Student-in-Elementary-Education.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 85vw, (max-width: 768px) 67vw, (max-width: 1024px) 62vw,300px\" \/>Natalie McCarthy of <span id=\"m_-2870838499647308834gmail-docs-internal-guid-34787be2-7fff-0357-3875-1e565288fd4f\">Lincoln, Maine is the 2023 Outstanding Student in Elementary Education in the University of Maine College of Education and Human Development. A Maine Top Scholar and George J. Mitchell Scholarship recipient, Natalie was a member of the Emerging Leaders program (2020 cohort) and a substitute teacher at many local elementary schools during her time at UMaine. She will graduate with a concentration in English.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Hometown:<\/strong> Lincoln, ME<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>High School:<\/strong> Mattanawcook Academy<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Parents:<\/strong> Aimee and Bill McCarthy<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Special thanks:\u00a0<\/strong>I feel incredibly grateful to have worked with such supportive professors, instructors, advisors and mentors over the past four years at UMaine. Their kindness and generosity inspires me to be the most empathetic educator I can be. I also want to thank my incredible family members for their constant encouragement and compassion: Mum, Dad, Tanner, Brandon, Alex, Paul, Chris and Dan. You are my greatest teachers of all.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Favorite UMaine memory:<\/strong> One of my favorite pastimes at UMaine was traversing the beautiful trail system on campus!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Natalie McCarthy of Lincoln, Maine is the 2023 Outstanding Student in Elementary Education in the University of Maine College of Education and Human Development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"5","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"Natalie McCarthy of Lincoln, Maine is the 2023 Outstanding Student in Elementary Education in the University of Maine College of Education and Human Development.","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","spc_primary_category":0},"categories":[1834,5,8,954,222],"tags":[4402,4401,25,1428,3465,2794,4405,1839,39,4404,3049,4083,4400,4403,61,65],"class_list":["post-22677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elementary-education","category-in-the-news","category-news","category-school-of-learning-and-teaching","category-student-alumni-profiles","tag-aimee-mccarthy","tag-bill-mccarthy","tag-college-of-education-and-human-development","tag-elementary-education","tag-emerging-leaders","tag-english","tag-george-j-mitchell-scholarship","tag-lincoln","tag-maine","tag-maine-top-scholar","tag-mattanawcook-academy","tag-natalie-mccarthy","tag-outstanding-student-in-elementary-education","tag-substitute-teacher","tag-umaine","tag-university-of-maine"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1834,"label":"Elementary Education"},{"value":5,"label":"In the News"},{"value":8,"label":"News"},{"value":954,"label":"School of Learning and Teaching"},{"value":222,"label":"Student &amp; Alumni Profiles"}],"post_tag":[{"value":4402,"label":"Aimee McCarthy"},{"value":4401,"label":"Bill McCarthy"},{"value":25,"label":"College of Education and Human Development"},{"value":1428,"label":"elementary education"},{"value":3465,"label":"Emerging Leaders"},{"value":2794,"label":"English"},{"value":4405,"label":"George J. 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