Aerie InternationaL - Missoula County Public Schools
Aerie InternationaL - Missoula County Public Schools
Aerie InternationaL - Missoula County Public Schools
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Thank you, Teachers and <strong>Schools</strong><br />
If I’ve learned anything in my tenure as a board member and advisor to several<br />
literary magazines, it is the critical role of the teacher. Should anyone wonder, many<br />
of the students represented in these pages share the same teacher. The students may<br />
have been gifted writers or artists at the outset, but after many years of reading and<br />
enjoying student submissions, it is clear that there is a force behind the best students.<br />
At the core, teachers are urging, supporting, perhaps cajoling, and likely pushing<br />
students beyond their comfort zones. Those teachers are involved in their students’<br />
work at a dynamic level, offering them new ways of viewing the world and new skills<br />
with which to render what they see. In a time when teachers, particularly teachers of<br />
the arts, live too closely to the vacuum that can become standardized testing, please<br />
applaud schools, administrations and teachers who understand and validate the<br />
absolute need for the arts in our young people’s lives. This magazine exists, certainly,<br />
because of students and their work. It would exist in a far different way without<br />
the teachers who foster, guide and give voice and substance to that work, and the<br />
administrators and schools that make it possible. Thank you. LEL<br />
Students of the following teachers were selected for inclusion in the 2009 <strong>Aerie</strong><br />
International.<br />
Angelia Perkins of Lawrence High School, Lawrence, Kansas<br />
Anna Grehova of American Councils, Ashgabat, Turkmenistan<br />
Anna Skinner of Yothin Burana School, Bangkok, Thailand<br />
Brenda Graham and Jane Giles of Trinity School, Carlisle, Cumbria, Great Britain<br />
Carolyn Berry of Lawrence Free State High School, Lawrence, Kansas<br />
Ealene Anderson of Otjiwarongo Secondary School, Otjiwarongo, Namibia<br />
Fujiwara Masayuki of Daini Senior High School, Kumamoto, Japan<br />
Geoffrey Serra of Norwich Free Academy, Norwich, Connecticut<br />
George Singleton and Mamie Morgan of South Carolina Governor’s School for the<br />
Arts and Humanities, Greenville, South Carolina<br />
Heather Woodward of San Francisco School of the Arts, San Francisco, California<br />
Jackie Jones, Liz Flaisig and Will Napier of Douglas Anderson School of the Arts,<br />
Jacksonville, Florida<br />
Janine King of Los Alamitos High School, Los Alamitos, California<br />
Jean O’Connor of Helena High School, Helena, Montana<br />
Joel McElvaney of Roswell High School, Roswell, Georgia<br />
Judy Nollner, Mary Lynn Huie and Susan Henderson of Parkview High School,<br />
Lilburn, Georgia<br />
Kathy Woods of Norman North High School, Norman, Oklahoma<br />
Kelly Hammond of Cincinnati Country Day School, Cincinnati, Ohio<br />
Kim Lucostic of Big Sky High School, <strong>Missoula</strong>, Montana<br />
Lary Kleeman of Arapahoe High School, Centennial, Colorado<br />
Linda Simpson of Judge Memorial Catholic High School, Salt Lake City, Utah<br />
Nataliya Yegorava of Secondary School 40, Kazan, Russia<br />
Stuart Merchant of Hydaburg High School, Hydaburg, Alaska<br />
Svea Barrett of Northern Highlands Regional High School, Allendale, New Jersey<br />
Ulla Kudjoi, Juhana Herttua High School, Turku, Finland