
Sara Boucher named a Nevada STEM Teacher of the Year
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William E. Snyder ES Teacher Sara Boucher is named a Nevada STEM Teacher of the Year!
Go inside Sara Boucher’s classroom at William E. Snyder ES to learn why she was named a Nevada STEM Teacher of the Year by the Governor’s Office of Science, Innovation and Technology.
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Sara Boucher named a Nevada STEM Teacher of the Year
Clip: Season 5 Episode 8 | 3m 34sVideo has Closed Captions
Go inside Sara Boucher’s classroom at William E. Snyder ES to learn why she was named a Nevada STEM Teacher of the Year by the Governor’s Office of Science, Innovation and Technology.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipNow, a little bit of history.
This school is celebrating, listen to this, 25 years this year.
It opened back in 2001, and it is named after local architect Bill Snyder.
The school's motto: A galaxy of learners.
And these brilliant learners have some wonderful teachers who inspired them to reach for the stars.
One of those teachers is Ms.
Boucher.
The Governor's Office of Science, Innovation, and Technology recently named Ms.
Boucher "STEM Teacher of the Year."
-Sara is such an amazing, incredible teacher.
She is all about the kids.
-Go forward.
There you go.
-Step inside Ms.
Boucher's classroom, and you just don't see the learning.
You feel it.
(Daron Morris) One of the stations was my favorite, where we had to destroy a tower we made.
(Sara Boucher) Today is the Robot Rodeo.
It's a little chaotic, but it's a lot of fun.
So we take out all of the robots, we take out all of the skills that they've learned from the past couple weeks, and, honestly, just give them some time to play.
-Sara Boucher has been a teacher for more than a dozen years... (Sky Espina) I love my teacher, Ms.
Boucher, actually.
She's always like, so fun and creative about, like, all of her classes.
-...seven years here at Snyder.
-But I really want them to see how can I use technology as a tool so that we can use it for, yeah, we're using it for fun, but they're also learning, you know, how can I problem solve?
How can I fix this?
(Rafael Dominguez) In STEM, we just, like, talk about math, engineering.
-While Ms.
Boucher officially teaches science, technology, engineering, and math, her curriculum also includes connection.
(Jenne Haynal) She wants to have those moments, those connections.
And what she gets in return are excited students, students that can't wait for STEM, even students that maybe STEM isn't really their thing, but, man, they love Ms.
Boucher.
-And Ms.
Boucher loves them.
When asked her favorite part about teaching... -I knew you were gonna ask a question that was gonna make me cry.
-...the answer brings her to tears.
-Teaching is really hard, but I love the kids.
I just love teaching.
I get to work with kids, and who gets to say that they get to go to work every day and hang out with kids and play with robots and learn about coding and do science experiments?
-Her passion is contagious.
-I'm always, like, interested and like motivated to learn what she's teaching about.
(Alain Radago) She's really nice, like really, really awesome.
She's really nice.
-And she is always looking to do more.
-Just in general, I think kids deserve to have the best access to everything, right?
It shouldn't matter where you're at, what part of the city you're in.
Kids deserve to have access to the best of the best.
I get to do a lot at this school, and I'm really thankful for all of the things that we get to do.
So it does mean a lot.
-Ms.
Boucher may be the STEM Teacher of the Year, but the real winners are her students.
-She's just an awesome human.
She is.
She's wonderful, and we are so blessed to have her here as part of our Snyder family.
-Love her dedication to her students.
They are all superstars.
Well, another CCSD teacher was also honored by the Governor's Office of Science, Innovation, and Technology.
Denise Frye Ward for Mike O'Callaghan i3 Learn Academy was selected as "Southern Nevada's STEM Teacher of the Year."
Big congratulations to Ms.
Ward as well.
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