Glencoe Teacher Named Regional Honoree in Outstanding Educator Program
October 1, 2020
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Glencoe Teacher Named Regional Honoree in Outstanding Educator Program
Krysten Dane, Glencoe-Silver Lake High School
Krysten Dane, a teacher from Glencoe-Silver Lake High School, has been named as a regional honoree in the WEM Foundation’s 2020 Outstanding Educator Awards program. An award that comes with $1,500.
Dane is being honored with an Ethics in Education award, which recognizes educators who embody ethical behavior and promote ethical development for students through classroom or school activities, policies or curriculum.
Dane has been teaching and coaching for eight years and currently teaches family and consumer science at Glencoe-Silver Lake High School in Glencoe. In addition to teaching, Dane also coaches volleyball. Dane has spent countless hours planning, writing, revising, and collaborating to create multiple Launch Your Future Today (LYFT) grant opportunities in the school districts of Glencoe-Silver Lake, Lester Prairie, Hutchinson and Litchfield. These LYFT grants have provided funding to create new courses and opportunities for students. One of these opportunities is in the form of an operational food truck. She has partnered with the school’s business department to develop a curriculum for a course entitled Culinary Entrepreneurship. In this course, students learn from hands on experience, relevant culinary and business skills.
“Ms. Dane has a true gift and passion for teaching,” shares a colleague. “She is a standards-based teacher who promotes inclusion in a bias-free classroom. She is able to create a highly engaging atmosphere that promotes student achievement and facilitates parental and community involvement within the school and classroom.”
In addition to the Ethics in Education Award, honorees are recognized with the Academic Challenge Coach Award (teachers who are exemplary coaches of student teams that participate and compete in academic challenges approved by the Minnesota Academic League Council), Teacher Achievement Award (exemplary teachers who support, inspire and assist students to attain greater learning as evidenced by student achievement) and Athletic Coach Award (teachers who are exemplary coaches of athletic teams).
Educators are first nominated for the WEM Outstanding Educator Awards Program by students, parents, colleagues or community members. Those who accept the nomination provide additional information for consideration by Synergy & Leadership Exchange and a blue ribbon selection panel, which reviews and ranks the nominees. Six educators received statewide honors, and six educators were named as regional honorees for the 2020 WEM Foundation Outstanding Educator Awards
Synergy & Leadership Exchange is a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering collaboration to advance the development of ethical citizens, providing educational resources, and celebrating achievement and best practices in Minnesota schools, businesses and communities.
For more information on the WEM Outstanding Educator Awards Program and Synergy & Leadership Exchange, visit www.synergyexchange.org.