Ten Utah educators to receive top 2017 Utah teaching honors
UEA/dōTERRA Excellence in Teaching Awards presented at the KeyBank ‘Superstars in Education’ Banquet
MURRAY (MAY 18, 2017) — Kathy Riddle, first-grade teacher at Circleville Elementary School in Piute County School District, makes her students eat dirt and worms. It’s only crushed Oreos and gummy worms, but her students remember “Daily Individualized Reading Time (DIRT),” a time when every student reads individually selected books aloud. Her classroom is energized as the students remember alphabet sounds while enjoying green eggs and ham, popcorn flying from the popper, bubble gum machines and other engaging activities. “The bottom line is she makes learning fun,” said a fellow teacher.
Helping students set goals and plan for their futures is only a small part of what Richard Kimball does. When a student was hospitalized for an attempted suicide, the counselor at Diamond Fork Junior High School in Nebo School District stepped in to help her and her mother move forward. He arranged for home-bound services so the student could still get her school work done and earn credit for graduation. He also helped her mother find community services.
Five years ago, James Cavan taught a single music class at South Sevier Middle School with about 35 student musicians ranging from beginning to more experienced. This year there are 137 students between two classes, including about half of the entire sixth-grade class. His love of music is contagious and has impacted the entire school.
Riddle, Kimball and Cavan are three of the 10 educators who will be honored with 2017 UEA/dōTERRA Excellence in Teaching awards during the KeyBank Superstars in Education banquet May 19. The event will be at the Loveland Living Planet Aquarium in Draper.
Award recipients were selected based on their impact on individual students or groups of students. Each winner receives an award, a poster to display at their school and a check for $1,500, courtesy of award sponsor dōTERRA.
UEA/dōTERRA Excellence in Teaching award recipients for 2017 are:
· Melissa Brown, Math Teacher at Riverton High School, Jordan School District;
· James Cavan, Music Teacher at South Sevier Middle School and South Sevier High School, Sevier School District;
· Laura Eliason, Fifth-Grade Teacher at Taylor Elementary, Davis School District;
· Jennifer Ellsworth, Fourth-Grade Teacher at Rolling Meadows Elementary, Granite School District;
· Katie Frederiksen, English Teacher at Legacy Junior High School, Davis School District;
· Richard Kimball, Counselor at Diamond Fork Junior High School, Nebo School District;
· Andrew Lund, Vice Principal at South Cache Middle School, Cache County School District;
· Kathy Riddle, First-Grade Teacher at Circleville Elementary School, Piute County School District;
· Kathy Sherman, English as a Second Language Teacher at Ellis Elementary School, Logan City School District; and
· Mui Tran, Kindergarten Teacher at Holt Elementary School, Davis School District.
View award winner profiles, photos and videos
The UEA has presented more than 150 Excellence in Teaching awards since 2000. KeyBank has sponsored the banquet since 2012. KUED produced a video profile on each of the 10 winning teachers shown at the awards ceremony. The video profiles are available online at kued.org/teachers.
“The UEA is honored to recognize these outstanding educators,” said UEA President Heidi Matthews. “They are a shining example of the great work happening in our public schools each day.”
“We are privileged to support the Utah Education Association as it honors our state’s educators,” said Terry Grant, President of KeyBank in Utah. “These exceptional teachers comprise a vital part of our communities by ensuring our children receive quality educations. Quality education helps our communities thrive and thriving communities benefit all of us.”
In addition to recognizing the state’s outstanding educators, the UEA presented three 2017 Honor Roll awards for outstanding service to Utah public education:
· Marie Poulson, Utah state representative and former educator;
· Ralph Sharp, volunteer at Foothills and Blackridge Elementary Schools, Jordan School District; and
· Tommy Tanzer, retired educator, Park City School District.
A Charles E. Bennett UEA Human and Civil Rights Award was also presented to Mike Harman, homeless education liaison in Salt Lake City School District.
About the Utah Education Association
For more than a century, the Utah Education Association has been dedicated to preserving and enhancing Utah public education. The UEA represents 18,000 active classroom teachers, retired educators, administrators, licensed educational support personnel and campus education students. The UEA has local affiliates in each of the state’s 41 school districts, Applied Technology Colleges, and the Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind.
About dōTERRA
dōTERRA is the world leader in sourcing, testing, manufacturing and distributing CPTG® essential oils through a global network of more than three million independent direct-sale distributors, known as Wellness Advocates, and wholesale customers. dōTERRA, the Latin derivative meaning “Gift of the Earth,” sets the standard for essential oils by providing to its customers the most tested and most trusted oils and having developed the expertise and commitment required to derive these unique oils directly from the best sources in the world. dōTERRA Co-Impact Sourcing® provides local growers and distillers fair compensation for their efforts, creating stronger local economies and a healthier, stable supply chain. In addition to a premium line of single-plant extracts and proprietary essential oil blends, the company offers oil-infused personal care and spa products, dietary supplements, and healthy living products for the home. For more information, visit doterra.com.
About KeyBank
KeyBank is part of KeyCorp, one of the nation's largest bank-based financial services companies with assets of approximately $98.4 billion. Key provides deposit, lending, cash management and investment services to individuals, small and medium-sized businesses under the name of KeyBank N.A. Key also provides a broad range of sophisticated corporate and investment banking products, such as merger and acquisition advice, public and private debt and equity, syndications and derivatives to middle market companies in selected industries throughout the United States under the KeyBanc Capital Markets trade name. For more information, visit key.com. KeyBank is Member FDIC.
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Matisyahu
Releases New Album
Undercurrent
**Now Available Via Mass Appeal, iTunes, Amazon & PledgeMusic
Watch music video For "Back To The Old" on Conan O'Brien's Team Coco,
Here: https://goo.gl/osXqnK
Listen to "Back To The Old" on Billboard, Here: https://goo.gl/aA2dPW
Listen to "Step Out Into The Light" on Fuse, Here: https://goo.gl/pY0x21
"[Step Out Into The Light's] lyrics are introspective and wide-ranging with a gorgeous outro
that lets the listener sit with the music just a bit longer."
- Fuse
May 19, 2017 - Grammy-nominated Reggae artist Matisyahu has officially released his sixth studio album, Undercurrent today! Undercurrent is musically Matisyahu's most courageous release to date and lyrically his most vulnerable. Nearly thirteen years after the release of his first studio record, Matisyahu and his band have done something unmatched in his past repertoire. The album is now available for streaming via Mass Appeal and for purchase via iTunes, Amazon, and PledgeMusic.
Touching on the significance of this new recording experience, Matisyahu explains. "This is the first album I've made that is produced by myself and the band with out any outside forces involved. It's my baby. No compromises, full artistic integrity."
The vulnerability felt throughout the lyrical narrative comes from acceptance in uncertainty. Matisyahu explains, "This record is like, Abraham's walk back down the mountain. After he's made this kind of breakthrough experience, like how does he now come back to life? And that's kind of what this period of time in my life has been all about. Like "Okay, now you broke out of bad relationships, bad habits, religious practices that weren't working for you, philosophical, you know, mental ties that you had to things." And, and then it's like, "Okay, where are you now?" You know? And that's kind of what this record is."
The courage in the music comes from trust. Trust in the band, and only in the band. There are no post-production bells and whistles or litany of special guests on Undercurrent. The band improvised for hours in the studio with Matisyahu watching on as an admirer without singing a single lyric. Out of the improvisations grew melodic themes, rhythmic peaks and valleys, blissful and proto-song guitar passages, deep dub meditations and ultimately an inspired instrumental record until itself. Only once the band had crafted this musical narrative, did Matisyahu begin to work on a lyrical narrative of his own.
The level of interplay between Matisyahu and his band mates on Undercurrent is unquestionable - with each replay, the album reveals a guitar line from longtime guitarist, Aaron Dugan, which elevates a vocal melody that only 15 years of experience together can achieve. Keyboard patterns from BigYuki unrealized in a previous listen connect one song to another and the full band improvisations with Dub Trio bassist and drummer Stu Brooks and Joe Tomino climax with an impressive exploratory section on the record's final track "Driftin'".
With this album, Matisyahu and his band have achieved a musical retelling of the Matisyahu story that explores the forces within that inspire us all, challenge us all, break us down, lift us up, and yet are rarely obvious to the outside observer.
Ultimately, Undercurrent is a fully realized concept album crafted by a band-of-brothers who have learned to hold a conversation that is both comforting and challenging at the same time. It plays like a revelatory session with a great psychotherapist.
The visual component of Undercurrent falls into the same level of exploration and creativity, as Matisyahu explains, "Artist/designer Joey Bayer created the cover art and comic to follow based on fantasy versions of the band members and myself. At times during shows I've found myself lost in trance where the band becomes a unit of spiritual warriors fighting to free the souls of the youth. We've created all of the album art around this fantasy."
Matisyahu's album Undercurrent is officially out today, May 19th! For more information, please visit: http://matisyahuworld.com.
Undercurrent Tracklisting:
01. Step Out Into The Light
02. Back To The Old
03. Coming Up Empty
04. Blue Sky Playground
05. Tell Me
06. Forest of Faith (Emunah)
07. Head Right
08. Driftin'
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/matisyahu/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/matisyahu
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/matisyahu/
Tour Dates:
** = Supporting UB40
May 26 - Monterey, CA @ California Roots Festival
May 28 - Jupiter, FL @ Abacoa Town Center Ampitheatre
Jun 2 - Atlanta, GA @ Candler Park Music Festival
Jun 10 - San Diego, CA @ San Diego Oysterfest
Jun 17 - Hunter, NY @ Mountain Jam
Jun 23 - Rothbury, MI @ Electric Forest
Jul 1 - Rothbury, MI @ Electric Forest
Jul 2 - Des Moines, IA @ Woolys
Jul 4 - Colorado Springs, CO @ The Black Sheep
Jul 6 - Los Angeles, CA @ Greek Theatre**
Jul 7 - Avila Beach, CA @ Avila Beach Resort Amphitheater**
Jul 8 - Crystal Bay, NV @ Crystal Bay Casino / Crown Room**
Jul 9 - Fresno, CA @ Tower Theatre**
Jul 11 - Eugene, OR - Wow Hall**
Jul 12 - Garden City, ID @ Revolution Center**
Jul 13 - Redmond, WA @ Marymoor Park**
Jul 14 - Jacksonville, OR @ Britt Music and Arts Festival**
Jul 15 - Redwood Valley, CA @ Coyote Valley Casino
Jul 16 - Bend, OR @ Crows Feet Commons**
Jul 19 - Missoula, MT @ Big Sky Brewing**
Jul 20 - Billings, MT @ The Pub Station**
Jul 21 - Denver, CO @ Levitt Pavilion Denver**
Jul 22 - Salt Lake City, UT @ The Complex**
Jul 24 - Durango, CO @ Animas City Theatre**
Jul 25 - Tempe, AZ @ The Marquee**
Jul 27 - Pala, CA @ Pala Casino Spa and Resort**
Jul 29 - Las Vegas, NV @ Mandalay Bay Beach**
Aug 2 - New York, NY @ The Cutting Room
Aug 3 - Rochester, NY @ Martin Luther King Jr. Park at Manhattan Square
Aug 12 - Acoma Pueblo, NM @ Sky City Casino Hotel - Amphitheater
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