{"id":23349,"date":"2013-06-05T00:00:12","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T05:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/?p=23349"},"modified":"2013-06-05T00:01:14","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T05:01:14","slug":"new-mexico-school-for-the-deaf-educator-puts-school-on-the-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2013\/06\/05\/new-mexico-school-for-the-deaf-educator-puts-school-on-the-map\/","title":{"rendered":"New Mexico School for the Deaf educator puts \u2018school on the map\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Classic<\/a>School for the Deaf educator puts \u2018school on the map\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

June 4, 2013<\/p>\n

By Robert Nott The New Mexican<\/p>\n

Kimberly Hand has always enjoyed working with children, even in her early days growing up in rural Michigan. \u201cI enjoyed watching them grow and being motivated to learn,\u201d she said. \u201cThat\u2019s what I wanted to keep seeing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hand, who is deaf, became the first teacher in her family. She has been at it for 14 years; the last 10 with the New Mexico School for the Deaf. On Monday afternoon, the school and Partners in Education honored Hand with a Teachers Who Inspire award during a brief assembly in the school gym.<\/p>\n

School superintendent Ronald Stern said the award \u201cputs the New Mexico School for the Deaf on the map.\u201d In her brief acceptance speech, Hand said her students, her peers, and her friends all play a role in her success as a teacher.<\/p>\n

Hand is credited with using resources from outside the classroom in her teaching. For instance, when Hand discovered that some of her students were interested in studying veterinary medicine, she contacted the mother of a former student who runs a mobile vet clinic and invited her to the classroom for some hands-on learning.<\/p>\n

Hand said she earned her teaching degree at the federally chartered Gallaudet University for deaf and hard-of-hearing students in Washington, D.C. She taught for four years at the Arizona School for the Deaf and Blind before relocating to New Mexico 10 years ago with her husband, Gary, who also teaches at the school. The couple have two children who attend the school for the deaf \u2014 Lindsay, who is in the fifth grade, and Dustin, who is in the third grade.<\/p>\n

Hand has been teaching early childhood education at the school since January 2010. Many of her pre-K students came up to hug her after the award was announced. \u201cI\u2019m speechless, really,\u201d Hand said several times.<\/p>\n

Scott Mohan, early childhood\/elementary school principal, and others applauded Hand for her ability to connect with children in the classroom. Hand noted that she and Mohan were supposed to go over her annual evaluation this week. But, she suggested to him, perhaps this Teachers Who Inspire award eliminates any need to have such a meeting.<\/p>\n

Partners in Education, a local nonprofit that partners with schools to support teachers, has presented this award for 21 years. Recipients are nominated by their peers \u2014 usually other educators working in the same school \u2014 and receive a glass sculpture of an apple and a check for $1,000. The anonymous donors who provide the money for the awards emphasize that they want the teachers to spend that $1,000 on themselves, and not on classroom needs.<\/p>\n

Hand, who is the seventh and last of the Teachers Who Inspire for this school year, said she may apply the $1,000 toward roughly $3,000 needed to attend a professional-development program in Italy this summer. \u201cThat\u2019s not spending it on my classroom, is it?\u201d Hand asked.<\/p>\n

This is the last week of school for The New Mexico School for the Deaf, which graduates about 15 seniors at 10 a.m. Friday, June 7 in the James A. Little Theater on campus.<\/p>\n

SOURCE:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.santafenewmexican.com\/news\/local_news\/article_dfe2512e-ccdf-11e2-a020-001a4bcf6878.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

School for the Deaf educator puts \u2018school on the map\u2019 June 4, 2013 By Robert Nott The New Mexican Kimberly Hand has always enjoyed working with children, even in her early days growing up in rural Michigan. \u201cI enjoyed watching…<\/p>\n

Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[18849,4621,2848,24,898,1412,18843,18847,2672,16757,18845,18848,17305,92,18846,88,18844],"class_list":["post-23349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deaf-news","tag-arizona-school-for-the-deaf-and-blind","tag-article","tag-classroom","tag-deaf","tag-gallaudet-university","tag-hard-of-hearing","tag-james-a-little-theater","tag-kimberly-hand","tag-new-mexico","tag-new-mexico-school-for-the-deaf","tag-partners-in-education","tag-robert-nott","tag-ronald-stern","tag-school","tag-scott-mohan","tag-teacher","tag-teachers-who-inspire"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p752R-64B","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":22786,"url":"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2013\/04\/26\/school-opens-its-doors-to-teach-community-about-deaf-culture\/","url_meta":{"origin":23349,"position":0},"title":"School opens its doors to teach community about deaf culture","author":"Grant Laird Jr","date":"April 26, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"School opens its doors to teach community about deaf culture April 21, 2013 By Robert Nott The New Mexican Hedy Udkovich-Stern imagines that a lot of people driving down Cerrillos Road past the New Mexico School for the Deaf wonder what goes on behind its walls. That\u2019s one reason the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "General"","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/category\/deaf-news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Classic New Mexico magnet","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Classic-New-Mexico-magnet-150x150.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":28477,"url":"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2014\/09\/04\/new-mexico-school-for-the-deafs-new-library-opens\/","url_meta":{"origin":23349,"position":1},"title":"New Mexico School for the Deaf\u2019s new library opens","author":"Grant Laird Jr","date":"September 4, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"New Mexico School for the Deaf\u2019s new library opens August 17, 2014 By Robert Nott The New Mexican New Mexico School for the Deaf first-grader Nirveli Smith wore a pair of helium-filled balloons tied to her wrists Sunday afternoon as she helped welcome visitors to the school\u2019s new library, which\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "General"","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/category\/deaf-news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":28635,"url":"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2014\/09\/18\/job-opportunity-deaf-ed-teacher-wanted-waco\/","url_meta":{"origin":23349,"position":2},"title":"Job Opportunity: Deaf Ed Teacher Wanted – Waco","author":"Grant Laird Jr","date":"September 18, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Job Opportunity: Deaf Ed Teacher Wanted - Waco WACOISD.ORG is in the need of Deaf Education teachers with ASL fluent. We need two immediately. Deaf Educator who can teach deaf students and qualified LEAD Interpreter. We require to have a certified teacher\/interpreter. Certification is required for the LEAD position and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "General"","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/category\/deaf-news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":40020,"url":"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2019\/11\/15\/tsd-release-partnership-addresses-shortage-of-teachers-entering-special-education\/","url_meta":{"origin":23349,"position":3},"title":"TSD Release: Partnership Addresses Shortage of Teachers Entering Special Education","author":"Grant Laird Jr","date":"November 15, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"TSD Release: Partnership Addresses Shortage of Teachers Entering Special Education TEXAS SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF PRESS RELEASE Contact: Gabriel Cardenas Phone: 512-462-5372 Email: Gabriel.Cardenas@tsd.state.tx.us FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE LAMAR UNIVERSITY PARTNERS WITH TEXAS SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF TO ADDRESS SHORTAGE OF TEACHERS ENTERING SPECIAL EDUCATION November 15, 2019 - Austin, Texas\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "General"","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/category\/deaf-news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/tsd-logo-180x180.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":40793,"url":"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2020\/06\/11\/free-webinar-q-a-providing-early-intervention-to-d-hh-babies-during-covid-19-spanish-interpretation-available\/","url_meta":{"origin":23349,"position":4},"title":"Free WEBINAR Q\/A: Providing Early Intervention to D\/HH Babies during COVID-19 (Spanish interpretation available)","author":"Grant Laird Jr","date":"June 11, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"FREE WEBINAR Q\/A: Providing Early Intervention to Deaf and Hard of Hearing Babies during COVID-19 Wednesday, June 17, 2020 at 3 - 4:30 PM EST The webinar will share best practices on how to provide early intervention (EI) services for deaf and hard of hearing babies during the COVID-19 pandemic.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "General"","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/category\/deaf-news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/webinar-covid-by-nad.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":34650,"url":"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2016\/12\/01\/ritntid-founding-faculty-member-robert-panara-to-be-immortalized-on-postage-stamp\/","url_meta":{"origin":23349,"position":5},"title":"RIT\/NTID founding faculty member Robert Panara to be immortalized on postage stamp","author":"Grant Laird Jr","date":"December 1, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"RIT\/NTID founding faculty member Robert Panara to be immortalized on a postage stamp Release Date: Nov. 28, 2016 Contact: Susan Murad 585-475-6283 or susan.murad@rit.edu RIT\/NTID founding faculty member Robert Panara to be immortalized on postage stamp Panara is honored as part of the Distinguished Americans series Educator and icon Robert\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "General"","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/category\/deaf-news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"panara_stamp","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/panara_stamp.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/panara_stamp.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/panara_stamp.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23349"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23352,"href":"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23349\/revisions\/23352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}