UALR Grads Win LRSD Teacher Recognition
Mary Katherine Parson, a 2003 graduate of the master’s of secondary education program at UALR’s College of Education, is the 2010 Teacher of the Year at the Little Rock School District.
Susan Blue, who earned a B.S. degree in education in 1984 and a master’s degree in early childhood education in 1978 from UALR, was named Outstanding Elementary School Teacher at Booker Elementary School.
Other College of Education alumni receiving LRSD recognition and making a difference in the district’s classrooms and their UALR degrees are:
- Barry Anderson, Bale Elementary, BSE Early Childhood Education
- Keith Hearnsberger, Fair High School, MEd , Secondary Education
- Jonathan Buford, Felder Learning Academy, MEd, Secondary Education
- Nancy Harris Canon, Cloverdale, MEd, Middle Childhood
- Jennifer Croft, McDermott Elementary, MEd Early Childhood
- Lou Ann Gray, Franklin Elementary, MEd Reading
- Brenda Gail Harris, King Elementary, MEd Reading
- Linda Hickerson, Wakefield Elementary, MEd Early Childhood
- Courtney Huffman Gasper, Meadowcliff Elementary, BSE Early Childhood
- Jennifer McManus, Williams Elementary, BSE Early Childhood
- Jessica Pilkington, Mable Elementary, BSE Early Childhood
- Anna Tucker, Pulaski Heights Middle School, BS Math/Secondary Ed Minor
- Jennifer Caldwell, Fair Park Early Childhood Center, BSE Early Childhood