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Linda Gunsaulis of Fairview Named 2010 Ag in the Classroom Teacher of the Year
Fri, 26 Mar 2010 6:37:50 CDT
The Oklahoma Ag in the Classroom program honored Fourth Grade Teacher Linda Gunsaulis as their Teacher of the Year during Ag Day activities at the State Capitol in Oklahoma City on Thursday.
Gunsaulis is a Nationally Board Certified 4th grade teacher at Cornelson Elementary in Fairview. She has been a teacher for 33 years.
Linda has had several Ag in the Classroom poster winners over the past years, and including this year and now she is a winner herself! Her enthusiasm for agriculture is evident when you walk into her classroom. You might find a bale of cotton, shock of wheat, milk growth chart or beef breeds poster. Mrs. Gunsaulis integrates agriculture literacy throughout the core curriculum.
She says she works with a group of teachers and administrators that are support of and involved in Ag in the Classroom. Linda's love of her students, agriculture and education are blended into a ball of energy representing Ag in the Classroom as the 2010 Teacher of the Year.
The Gunsaulises raise beef cattle and irrigated Bermuda.
Linda will receive an expense-paid trip to the National Ag in the Classroom Conference in Baltimore, Maryland complements of the Oklahoma Farm Bureau Women; a $500 cash award from the Paul Jackson Family and Jackson Seed Company presented by Dr. Mary Jo Self, daughter of the late Paul Jackson; and a plaque from the OSU and ODAFF staff. She will also accompany the Ag in the Classroom staff on professional development summer road tours and at the state summer conference in July.
A few of Linda's honors and awards include:
Delta Kappa Gamma Professional Women Educators Society State Secretary
Former State President of Oklahoma Reading Council
2009 State Supreme Court Teacher of the Year
2003 National Elementary Social Studies Teacher of the Year
2002 Oklahoma and National Elementary Social Studies Teacher of the Year
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