Marty Kennedy Receives Shmerling Chair
At Convocation this week, first grade teacher Marty Kennedy was named the fourth person to hold the Lisa and Mike Shmerling Chair for Excellence in Teaching.
The first holder of the Chair, middle school teacher Dee Holder Hicks, received the honor in 2005, when Lisa and Mike Shmerling created the endowment to support the teaching they valued when their children attended USN. Since then high school science teacher Bill Rodriguez and fourth grade teacher Nikki Hunt have received the honor.
The teacher chosen is always one "whose contribution to students, colleagues, community, and profession set an example," in the words of Vince Durnan. As he said of Marty, "No one spends more time sharing what we’ve learned with groups across the country, or more intentionally across the years building repertoire by learning from others, or more directly working with the most influential educational thinkers of our day."
The teacher chosen is always one "whose contribution to students, colleagues, community, and profession set an example," in the words of Vince Durnan. As he said of Marty, "No one spends more time sharing what we’ve learned with groups across the country, or more intentionally across the years building repertoire by learning from others, or more directly working with the most influential educational thinkers of our day."
"The other half of that bargain is converting ideas harvested elsewhere to culture and pedagogy lived here. That pragmatism reaches all the way back to our founders, and it’s very much alive and well today. Our next chair holder brings life to new ways of thinking and keeps us connected to the worlds of best practice."
He called Marty "someone from whom I and we continue to learn, from the smallest to the tallest."
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