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Jenna Dean Joins TX Milken Educators

 

 

Texas State Board of Education Member Julie Pickren, Education Commissioner Mike Morath, Nederland Independent School District Superintendent Dr. Stuart Kieschnick, and Helena Park students gather around fourth grade teacher Jenna Dean to congratulate her on her Milken Educator Award. In Jenna's fourth grade STEM class, students learn about heat and energy transfer making s'mores using pizza boxes, aluminum foil and sunlight; explore concepts like area and perimeter as they design their "dream homes"; and take field trips to NASA, a local medical facility to learn about germs, radiation and ultrasound, and the local Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown Museum, which commemorates the discovery of oil in 1901 in nearby Beaumont.