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CAMPUS TEACHERS OF THE YEAR ANNOUNCED
Dripping Springs ISD announced its 2018-19 Campus Teachers of the Year, on April 4.
Teachers of the Year are: Shay Diez (Sycamore Springs Elementary, physical education), Lauren Milner (Dripping Springs High School, health sciences), Caroline Rogers (Dripping Springs Elementary, third grade), Candy Rowen (Rooster Springs Elementary, first grade), Denise Thomas (Walnut Springs Elementary, fifth grade), Rachel Tole (Dripping Springs Middle School, English), and Candace Torres (Sycamore Springs Middle School, special education). The Dripping Springs ISD Teacher of the Year program is sponsored by St. David’s HealthCare, in conjunction with the Dripping Springs Education Foundation.
Campus winners were selected through a nomination and voting process of all staff at each school. The seven campus winners are now eligible for the DSISD Elementary Teacher of the Year and Secondary Teacher of the Year awards, which are chosen following an interview process with a district committee and will be announced at the May 20 Board of Trustees meeting. Those two winners will represent Dripping Springs ISD in the state Teacher of the Year contest.
: Sycamore Springs Elementary School Teacher Shay Diez is in her 12th year of teaching.
Lauren Milner has been teaching Health Science for four years at DSHS and also is the sponsor of the school’s ROTC club.
Candy Rowen is in her third year teaching at Rooster Springs Elementary.
Caroline Rogers is in her 11th year at Dripping Springs Elementary, which is where she has spent her entire teaching career.
Veteran teacher Denise Thomas has spent nearly half of her career – 12 years – in Dripping Springs ISD and at Walnut Springs Elementary.
Rachel Tole is in her third year as an eighth-grade English Language Arts teacher at Dripping Springs Middle School and her 12th year overall.
Candace Torres is a sixth-grade inclusion teacher at Sycamore Springs Middle School, certified in Special Education (EC-12), and a graduate of Texas A&M University-Kingsville
