Senate Bill 2728

    Florida Senate - 1998        (NP)                      SR 2728

    By Senator Cowin





    11-2234-98

  1                    Senate Resolution No.     

  2         A resolution honoring Susan Ryan, a fifth-grade

  3         teacher at Tavares Elementary School, as Lake

  4         County Teacher of the Year.

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  6         WHEREAS, Susan Ryan has a Master's Degree in Elementary

  7  Education from the University of Central Florida, has 19 years

  8  of teaching experience in Florida, and this year has been

  9  named Lake County's Teacher of the Year, and

10         WHEREAS, Susan Ryan holds a Florida Teaching

11  Certificate in Elementary Education with endorsements in

12  Music, English as a Second Language, and Gifted Education, and

13         WHEREAS, Susan Ryan co-authored Florida's Environmental

14  Activity Guide, an activity book for environmental education,

15  and she has participated in the development of materials on

16  energy-related topics for teachers and students through her

17  involvement in Florida State University's Energy and

18  Environmental Alliance, and

19         WHEREAS, Susan Ryan has given more than 20 workshops to

20  teachers throughout Florida on science-teaching methods and

21  has presented at three Elementary Education Conferences, the

22  League of Environmental Educators Conference, and the Florida

23  Association of Science Teachers Conference, and

24         WHEREAS, Susan Ryan wrote, "Each day in my classroom my

25  students have small victories they can call their own. My

26  greatest accomplishments are their accomplishments", NOW,

27  THEREFORE,

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29  Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida:

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    Florida Senate - 1998        (NP)                      SR 2728
    11-2234-98




  1         That Susan Ryan is commended for her lifelong

  2  dedication to teaching and for being named Lake County Teacher

  3  of the Year for 1998.

  4         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this resolution,

  5  with the Seal of the Senate affixed, be presented to Susan

  6  Ryan as a tangible token of the sentiments and good wishes of

  7  the Florida Senate.

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