{"id":266733,"date":"2025-04-24T09:50:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T13:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/?p=266733"},"modified":"2025-04-24T10:21:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T14:21:19","slug":"statewide-awards-give-umw-high-marks-for-teacher-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/2025\/04\/24\/statewide-awards-give-umw-high-marks-for-teacher-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Statewide Awards Give UMW High Marks for Teacher Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><div id=\"attachment_266734\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/IMG_1643-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-266734\" class=\"wp-image-266734 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/IMG_1643-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Three UMW College of Education members received awards for their exceptional efforts in teaching. Pictured (from left) are Grace Sylvia, who is pursuing a Master of Education degree; Associate Professor of Education Christy Irish; and Sarah Batchelor, who graduated in December 2024 with a bachelor&rsquo;s degree in elementary education.\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/IMG_1643-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/IMG_1643-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/IMG_1643-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/IMG_1643-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/IMG_1643-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-266734\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pictured (from left) are Grace Sylvia, who is pursuing a Master of Education degree; Associate Professor of Education Christy Irish; and Sarah Batchelor, who graduated in December 2024 with a bachelor&rsquo;s degree in elementary education.<\/p><\/div><p>When it comes to excellence in teaching, the University of Mary Washington was recently honored for A+ achievement by the Virginia Association of Colleges and Teacher Educators (VACTE).<\/p><p>Three UMW College of Education members received awards for their exceptional efforts. Grace Sylvia, who is pursuing a Master of Education degree, took Outstanding Student in a Virginia Advance Preparation Program; Sarah Batchelor &rsquo;24 accepted Outstanding Student in a Virginia Licensure Program and Associate Professor of Education Christy Irish won the Faculty Impact Award.<\/p><p>VACTE bestowed the honors at its spring conference held in early April at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland. From pre-service through veteran teachers, VACTE is a key voice for development and support in the teaching profession at the local, state and national levels.<\/p><p>&ldquo;UMW is beyond proud that Sarah and Grace have been recognized by VACTE,&rdquo; Irish said of her fellow award-winners. &ldquo;They have excelled in their academics at Mary Washington, but moreover, they are now excelling as new teachers in the community. The College of Education looks forward to continuing to work side-by-side with them as they lead students in their own classrooms.&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2025\/04\/22\/statewide-awards-give-umw-high-marks-for-teacher-education\">Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to excellence in teaching, the University of Mary Washington was recently honored for A+ achievement by the Virginia Association of Colleges and Teacher Educators (VACTE).Three UMW College of Education members received awards for their exceptional efforts. Grace Sylvia, who is pursuing a Master of Education degree, took Outstanding Student in a Virginia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28679,"featured_media":266734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[25479,270],"class_list":["post-266733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-whats-new-umw","tag-cirish","tag-college-of-education","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28679"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}