Santa Rosa County teacher receives first-ever Innovating Teacher of the Year honor

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SANTA ROSA COUNTY, Fla. (WKRG) — A Santa Rosa County teacher is the recipient of the first-ever Innovating Teacher of the Year award.

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According to a Santa Rosa County District Schools news release, fifth-grade teacher at Holley-Navarre Intermediate School Anna Prindle received the honor from the Florida Center for Research in STEM at Florida State University.

This isn’t the first honor Prindle has received over the past two decades for teaching. She has also won multiple Teacher of the Year awards.

“We are thrilled to be honoring Anna Prindle with the first-ever FCR-STEM Innovating Teacher of the Year award,” said Rabieh Razzouk, director of FSU’s Learning Systems Institute, which is home to FCR-STEM. “By connecting complex STEM concepts to hands-on experiences, familiar contexts, and student-driven inquiry, Ms. Prindle is allowing all learners to engage with confidence and curiosity and excel.”…

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