Gilmer County Teacher of the Year |
2006-2007 |
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Nasia Butcher |
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Nasia P. Butcher is the 2006-07 Gilmer County Teacher of the
Year. She has a total of eighteen years of experience in
the secondary English classroom; she has taught English 11/12
and Advanced Communications at Gilmer County High School since
Sept. 2000. Previously, she has taught English/Language
Arts and Journalism at Calhoun County High School and at the
Calhoun-Gilmer Career Center. On July 1, 2007, Mrs. Butcher was
appointed principal at Gilmer County High School. Mrs. Butcher has served on a number of English/Language Arts and Writing committees at the West Virginia Department of Education and on various committees at Glenville State College. In 2002, Mrs. Butcher was a recipient of the Toyota Teachers International Institute where she spent two weeks studying the Japanese culture in Hiroshima, Kyoto, Toyota City, and Tokyo. That same summer, Mrs. Butcher spent ten days on the West Virginia Humanities Foundation's Shakespeare Summer Study in London and Stratford-upon-Avon, England. In 2005, Mrs. Butcher was honored by the Arch Coal Foundation as one of the ten most distinguished teachers in West Virginia. In 2007, she presented on using Chalkwaves in the secondary classroom at the National Professional Development Schools Conference in Las Vegas, NV. Mrs. Butcher is a native of Charleston and a graduate of Charleston High School and West Virginia University, where she received a Bachelor of Science degree in Journalism and a Master of Arts degree in Education. She holds English/journalism certifications through Glenville State College and an Education Administration certification through Marshall University. She makes her home in Glenville with her husband, Terry. They have two daughters, Alexis, who was recently admitted to Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Lansing, MI, and Elizabeth, a senior at Denison University in Granville, OH. |
Gilmer County Service Personnel of the Year
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2006-2007 |
