OUR TOWN: Ormond Beach teachers nominated for 2014 First Year Teacher Award

By Emily Blackwood
| 3:11 a.m. May 28, 2014

Ormond Beach Observer
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Three Ormond Beach teachers were nominated May 23 for FUTURES Foundation for Volusia County Schools’ 2014 First Year Teacher Award.

Ormond Beach was recently represented by three local teachers who were nominated for FUTURES Foundation for Volusia County Schools’ 2014 First Year Teacher Award. Kendall Burkett of Pine Trail Elementary, Jacklyn Gion of Seabreeze High and Misty Mercier of Ormond Beach Middle were among the 36 nominees performed outstandingly based on standards established by the Volusia County School District.

At FUTURES’ recognition event May 23, Beth Dobberstein, an art teacher at Sugar Mill Elementary School in Port Orange, received the Elementary level First Year Teacher Award. Shannon Hauser, a Social Studies teacher from Heritage Middle School in Deltona, received the Secondary level First Year Teacher Award.