NEW PHILADELPHIA Kip Brady and Cheryl Graham have been selected as the 2018 winners of the Dr. William J. and Mae Hurst Jackson Award for Distinguished Teaching in the New Philadelphia City School District.
NEW PHILADELPHIA Kip Brady and Cheryl Graham have been selected as the 2018 winners of the Dr. William J. and Mae Hurst Jackson Award for Distinguished Teaching in the New Philadelphia City School District.
Brady has taught science at New Philadelphia High School for 18 years. Graham has taught music for New Philadelphia schools for 44 years.
They will be recognized at the Quaker Foundation Awards Banquet on Friday. Each will receive a $6,000 monetary award.
Brady and Graham were selected as finalists by a committee of the Quaker Foundation, along with Julie Kandel and Chad Roberts. Kandel has been an elementary teacher and music teacher for New Philadelphia Schools for 22 years. Roberts teaches music at New Philadelphia High School and Welty Middle School. He has taught for 15 years in the district. Both runners-up will receive a $1,500 monetary award.
The finalists were selected from teachers in the district nominated by students, parents, alumni and other teachers.
The Dr. William J. and Mae Hurst Jackson Award for Distinguished Teaching was established by the Jacksons' children. William Jackson practiced as an optometrist in New Philadelphia for more than half a century. Mae Jackson taught English for several years in the New Philadelphia schools and served as organist at First United Methodist Church for more than 50 years.
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