In a church as filled with members of the teaching profession as ours, it is very important to know that one of us received a special honor this past month: Pat Shiffner received the New Brunswick Teacher Award and the N.J. Governor’s Teacher Award. For this she was nominated by the staff at Paul Robeson Community School. Two other teachers were also nominated. They each had to write a nomination statement to be reviewed by a committee. Pat was informed in March that she had been chosen.
And here is a little information on Pat’s career:
She graduated from Hope College in 1972 and received her Master’s Degree for Bilingual-Bicultural Education from Rutgers University. She has taught ESL (English as a Second Language) for one year, Bilingual/Monolingual Grade 2 for 35 years, and Bilingual First Grade this past year.
Reformed and education, this has been a good pair throughout the centuries. We are grateful for Pat keeping up this well-tried tradition and wish her God’s rich blessing for the coming school year.
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