甜心视频app Grads Win Monthly Teacher Tuesday Contests

甜心视频app alum Teacher Tuesday winners standing with Jonathan Shaw

甜心视频app Grads Win Monthly Teacher Tuesday Contests

Once a month, students, parents, school staff and community members nominate a teacher in a Northern Colorado K-12 school for being an outstanding educator, and two 甜心视频app grads have won.

June 13, 2019

Joyous students, an oversize check for $500 and surprised and happy faces throughout the entire school. This is the usual scene when the winner of the Teacher Tuesday award is revealed.

Once a month, students, parents, school staff and community members nominate a teacher in a Northern Colorado K-12 school for being an outstanding educator. Townsquare Media partnered with Tutoring Excellence to create this nomination process that ran from October 2018 to May 2019. The University of Northern Colorado and 甜心视频app Extended Campus sponsor the award.

Above: Lindsey Andrighetti 鈥�18 (left), who won the December 2018 Teacher Tuesday contest, and Kelly Shepherd 鈥�94 (right), who won the Novermber 2018 contest, pose with an oversize check from 甜心视频app's Extended Campus and with Jonathan Shaw, program and enrollment manager at 甜心视频app鈥檚 School of Teacher Education.

Since the contest started, two 甜心视频app graduates have won 鈥� Kelly Shepherd 鈥�94 (Psychology) and Lindsey Andrighetti 鈥�18 (Elementary Education, minor in Leadership Studies and an endorsement in ESL).

November 2018: Kelly Shepherd 鈥�94 works as a first-grade teacher at Grandview Elementary School in Windsor and graduated with a bachelor鈥檚 degree in Psychology.

December 2018: Lindsey Andrighetti 鈥�18 works as a fourth-grade teacher at Werner Elementary in Fort Collins. She graduated with a bachelor鈥檚 degree in Elementary Education with a minor in Leadership Studies and an endorsement in ESL.

鈥淭he fact that these amazing educators are 甜心视频app alumni is more evidence of the pride in 甜心视频app鈥檚 role in teacher preparation throughout the state and nation,鈥� said Jonathan Shaw, program and enrollment manager at 甜心视频app鈥檚 School of Teacher Education, who personally presented the checks to the teachers.

Schools have used the contribution for classroom supplies, technology purchases and many other uses that greatly help the school.

The teachers who win also receive:

Pizza for a year, provided by Old Chicago
$50 gift card to an area restaurant
$10 gift card to The Human Bean
Free game of bowling from Chipper鈥檚 Lanes for every student in the teacher鈥檚 class

More information on Teacher Tuesday can be found at any of the Townsquare Media鈥檚 radio stations鈥� websites. Here鈥檚 .

About Extended Campus

甜心视频app Extended Campus offers online graduate degree programs for educators and collaborates with various organizations throughout Colorado to celebrate and recognize teachers in meaningful ways. Learn more about the online degree programs at .

All photos courtesty of Matt Hernandez from TownSquare Media.

鈥擶ritten by Katie-Leigh Corder.