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Kate Newmyer 2024 Teacher on the Trail
It is the first day of school and you have a classroom full of students you probably don’t know. What stories do they have? What burdens do they carry, and what is important to them? As teachers, we want to get to know our students intentionally so we can start to build relationships. We need …
Right from the start, your students need to know they have walked into an Iditarod classroom. But they may not know much about the Iditarod. You could, of course, tell them all about it, which would not be a wrong instinct! What if we combined self-directed learning about the Iditarod using the go-to source, the …
Iditarod EDU welcomes Kate Newmyer as the 25th Iditarod Teacher on the Trail™. Currently Kate teaches 5th grade language arts and social studies in the Clear Creek ISD, in Texas. Her teaching experience is broad and includes music education, university art history adjunct professor, home school educator, and museum curator and she holds two master’s …