Mrs. Woods Wins Spring 2024 Teacher Impact Award

The last Teacher Impact Award of the school year was handed out this morning to our very own 3^rd grade teacher Kori Woods.

With the help of Principal Lorraine White, Dr. Thacker, along with Assistant Superintendent Dr. Heather Short, Director of Professional Development and Student Learning Dr. Lavon Dean-Null, and Director of Literacy and Title I Ryan Towner surprised Mrs. Woods in class with the award.

Impact Awards  are given to teachers who had the most significant individual student growth with DIBLES, ILEARN, and SAT assessments for Spring 2024.

Mrs. Woods had the district’s highest student growth in 3rd grade on ILEARN ELA! P-H-M’s 2024 Elementary Teacher of the Year 3^rd grade teacher Nichol Mondy is right next door, so she stopped in to congratulate Mrs. Woods. Congratulations to Mrs. Woods and her students! Click to see the photo gallery below.

Other teachers who received Spring 2024 Impact Awards include:

• Sherri Potts (Kindergarten, Bittersweet Elementary) had the highest DIBELS composite growth. (click to see the photo gallery on Bittersweet’s website)
• Heidi Tornquist’s 2^nd grade students at Elm Road had the highest DIBELS composite growth among all second graders in the district! (see the full photo gallery on Elm Road’s website)
• Katie French’s 3^rd grade class at Meadow’s Edge had the highest growth in Math scores among all six of P-H-M’s Title I schools! (see the full photo gallery on Meadow’s Edge website)
• Kristie Reynolds’ Walt Disney 5th graders had the highest growth in Math among all 5th grades at P-H-M’s 11 elementary schools! (see the full photo gallery on Walt Disney’s website)
• Monicah Fratena (Schmucker, 7^th grade Language Arts) had two class sections with the highest student growth on ILEARN in 7th grade Language Arts, as well as four out of the top eight sections. (click to see the photo gallery on Schmucker’s website)
• Gianna Keim (Discovery, 6^th & 7^th grade Math) had the highest growth in middle school math. (click to see the photo gallery on Discovery’s website)
• Candice Beelaert, Penn High School, SAT – Growth in English (click to see the photo gallery on Penn’s website)
• Rebecca Horvath, Penn High School, SAT – Growth in Math ​(click to see the photo gallery on Penn’s website)

As this school year comes to a close we want to thank all our teachers and students for their commitment to academic excellence this school year. The hard work really paid off!

Thank you to the P-H-M Education Foundation for covering the cost of the awards for purchasing the beautiful crystal awards given to the teacher award recipients.