2009.05.04
McHarg teacher wins lottery award
A few weeks ago, i wrote about two teachers at McHarg Elementary who tried to take her classroom to the world through a classroom blog.
Today, one of those teachers, Carolyn Wojtera, was named one of the Virginia Lottery's "Super Teachers."
Wojtera is one of eight across Virginia. She found out about the award -- $4,000 of which half must be spent on school supplies -- during a schoolwide assembly disguised a celebration that students completed their Standards of Learning exam.
A fellow teacher and parent of one of Wojtera's students nominated her.
"My daughter loves going to school and has developed a love of reading becasue of Mrs. Wojtera," wrote first-grade teacher Tracie Shelton Farmer in a nomination essay to the lottery.
Wojtera said she plans to use the classroom supply money to purchase flip cameras that will allow her students to take videos of classroom projects and post them to the class blog.
You can read more about Wojtera in Wednesday's NRV Current.
