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Powerful Living


Regional Winners Selected for Touchstone Energy


SKIE Awards O


klahoma’s Touchstone Energy Cooperatives and the K20 Center have released names of six regional winners for the annual SKIE (Supporting K20 Innovative Educators) Awards competition. The SKIE Award honors the efforts of educators who use technology to transform their classroom. Regional winners below each received a $500 grant and a statewide winner, to be announced in November, will receive a $1,500 award. The statewide winner’s school will be awarded a $1,000 cash award. To learn more, visit: http://k20center.ou.edu/skie.


Jessica Akins, Southwest Region


Jessica Akins has six years’ teaching experience as a Special Education teacher. She is currently an English teacher and Special Education director at Duke Public Schools. She served as the only Special Education director and teacher for students in pre-k through 12th grade at Central High Public Schools district from 2014 to 2016


where she implemented the IDEALS and used a wide variety of technolog- ical tools. Akins utilizes technology to engage her students and allows them to be innovators, teachers and leaders in their school.


Stephanie Hime, Northwest Region


Stephanie Hime has served as the technology integra- tionist at Southwest Elementary in Clinton Public Schools for one year and is a veteran teacher of 24 years. Hime is a member of various organizations including the International Reading Association and the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development and states she


is “forever a learner,” seeking professional development through Twitter, Facebook, blogs as well as state and national conferences. Hime acknowl- edges the critical supporting role played by her administration and believes “the best proessional development happens right under our noses, with those we work with day in and out.”


Gretchen Pitts, Northeast Region


Gretchen Pitts has completed her fi rst year as library media specialist and technology resource at Morrison Elementary School and 17 years in the teaching profes- sion. Pitts has a Master’s Degree in Educational Technology from Oklahoma State Univeristy and in addition to serv- ing as an Oklahoma Educational Technology Trust


(OETT) Grant Team Member, she has been a Guest Instructor for Ag in the Classroom and Meridian Technology Center’s Technobation4Education. Pitts’ biggest goal has been to take a leadership role in supporting and facil- itating the teachers to feel comfortable with the new technology so it will ultimately reach the students.


6 Teresa Potter, Central Region


Teresa Potter is a veteran teacher with 26 years of expe- rience, focusing the last 10 years as a third through sixth- grade gifted education teacher at Fisher Elementary School in Moore Public Schools. Potter has been a member of Moore Association of Classroom Teachers, National Council for Social Studies and Colonial Williamsburg


Teacher Institute. She provides professional development not only for her school district but other organizations including Oklahoma A+ Schools, Mount Vernon George Washington’s Ambassador Program and the National Council for Geographic Education.


Niccole Rech, Southeast Region Niccole Rech, a veteran teacher of 30 years currently


teaches Biology I and Biology II at Fort Towson High School in Fort Towson Public Schools. Rech is a Ph.D. candidate in Instructional Leandership and Academic Curriculum at The University of Oklahoma. A member of several organizations such as the National Association


of Rural Educators, Oklahoma Science Teachers Association and Professional Oklahoma Educators. Rech utilizes project based learning, specifi cally “cog- nitive apprenticeship” in teaching microbiology, pulling from both Vygotskian theory on the role of socialization in learning and Dewey’s em- phasis on experience based learning.


Rachel Welch, Tulsa Region


Rachel Welch has taught for eight years, spending the past two years as a first-grade teacher for Glenpool Elementary School. In her classroom, she emphasizes eq- uity for all learners through technology integration and differentiated learning centers. She is a former member of the Professional Oklahoma Educators and serves on vari- ous committees in her district. She is excited about continuing her own growth as a learner and sharing her knowledge with other teachers during professional development days and in team meetings.


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