The College of Education is very pleased to announce that Cherry Cantrell and Kimberly Scott are the winners of the Gladys Sachse Endowed Scholarships. Cherry and Kimberly are each awarded a $1,000 scholarship for the 2016-2017 academic year. Congratulations to Cherry and Kimberly!
Cherry Cantrell
Cherry Cantrell currently teaches secondary English at Bald Knob High School. This year she has all the Grade 10 students for English and one group of advanced Grade 9 students. Cherry also teaches oral communications. She has a Master’s Degree in English and hopes to finish her Master’s in the Library Media program in the summer of 2017. Cherry envisions a secondary library with a makerspace, a technology center, and a café of sorts.
Specifically, she would like to collaborate with classroom teachers and invite students into the library to reenact portions of history, a book, a poem, or a drama; the students would create costumes in the makerspace: to put the narrator of Poe’s stories on trial; to connect animal outfits to government philosophies through a study enrichment on Animal Farm; to become the characters in To Kill a Mockingbird and act out an alternate ending; or to portray the founding fathers at a meeting at Mt. Vernon. By creating a fun and interesting atmosphere and incorporating social media and gaming, Cherry desires to build a program where both teachers and students can bond and learn.
Kim Scott
Kim Scott has been working as teacher in the Conway Public School district for twenty four years. She has taught second and fourth grades which has exposed her to various levels of children’s books from her favorite picture book, My Many Colored Days to The Invention of Hugo Cabret. She plans on graduating with a degree in Library media science in August of 2018.
Once she graduates she plans on:
- Having a library that is a fun, collaborative and all- inclusive workspace
- Providing Ebooks and audiobooks for student use at home and school
- Changing the view of the library from being a solitary workspace to a collaborative environment
- Instituting a writing / illustrating club that would create a graphic novel
- Adding more culturally diverse books to the library