Carencro Middle School history teacher Steve Poulan uses sports analogies to encourage his students.
The classroom is where students work as a team to be successful, he said. It’s a place where they have home-court advantage, so even when someone makes a mistake, the rest of the team is going to encourage that person.
He was in his classroom when district staff, school leaders and representatives from Love Our Schools surprised him with the news that he is one of three Lafayette Parish School System middle school teachers selected as a finalist for the Education All-Star awards…