LCPS Teacher of the Year finalists discovered desire to help early on Neuse News – Neuse News

In her biography, Lindo remembered helping her younger brother with homework. This is where my teaching skills and interest to help others began, she wrote. Other children in the neighborhood started coming over because he would be telling anyone who would listen that his sister would help.

Hudson says her own teachers inspired to teach, especially those at North Lenoir High School, her alma mater. Not only did I want to pass on these skills but also to have the same impact teachers had on my life, she wrote.

That desire to help is a thread that ran through all the Teacher of the Year nominees, according to LCPS Superintendent Brent Williams, a member of the judging panel.

I am very proud of all of the candidates for Lenoir County Teacher of the Year for 2022-2023, Williams said.They represent all of the best qualities of truly outstanding educators with inspiring dedication to instructionalexcellence and unconditional commitment to doing whatever it takes to help our students to grow and to experience success now and throughout their lives.

Hudson is in her second stint as a K-5 physical education teacher at Northwest. A magna cum laude graduate of East Carolina University with a bachelor of science in physical education, she found her first teaching position at Northwest in 2014, spent the 2017-2018 school year at the ECU Lab School and returned to Northwest in 2018.

At Northwest, she is a member of the Crisis Intervention Team and School Improvement Team and chairs the schools Communications Team. She is a member of the North Carolina Association of Athletics, Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Dance and Sports Management Professionals.

She is an extremely gifted teacher who has mastered the art of getting her students to perform for her, Northwest principal Dr. Heather Walston wrote in her recommendation. Her students do not want to disappoint her.

Lindo started teaching in 2002 and came to LCPS for a three-year stint at Rochelle Middle School in 2007. Shes been at EB Frink since 2017 and currently teaches seventh-grade math. She holds a bachelor of science degree in education from Western Carolina University and a masters of arts and learning degree from Nova Southeastern University.

To her, teaching involves both imparting knowledge and motivating students to learn for life. I believe if my classroom atmosphere is inviting, fun and safe for all students then they will be motivated to try, she wrote in explaining her philosophy of teaching.

She holds students to extremely high standards, EB Frink principal Michael Moon wrote in his recommendation, but has created a classroom culture that allows them to not only succeed but excel. She places a premium on forming meaningful relationships with her students and they respond by being highly engaged in their own learning.

A product of Lenoir County Public Schools and a graduate of Lenoir Community College, where she earned an associate degree, Tilghman-Rouse holds a bachelor of science degree in family and community services and K-6 elementary certification from East Carolina University. Shes taught for 18 years, starting at Bynum Elementary in 2003 and moving to Northeast Elementary in 2008 when Bynum closed.

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