National Toyota Teacher of the Year
Weiss St. Louis Toyota Corolla dealer is excited to announce Toyota’s National Teacher of the Year award winner. This year’s winner is Carolyn Blocker of Long Beach, California. Blocker has been teaching for 25 years and received her honor on April 28th at the National Conference on Family Literacy in Louisville, Kentucky. The Toyota Teacher of the Year award has been a partnership between Toyota and the National Conference for Family Literacy for 17 years and continues to honor educators who go above and beyond by reaching out into the family lives of their students. According to the Toyota USA Newsroom at Toyota.com:
“This year’s winner, Blocker has worked for the past seven years to improve the lives of more than 300 families as a parent education teacher at the Long Beach School for Adults. Blocker and her community’s participants boast numerous achievements,including significant parent engagement and a 90 percent retention of families, despite facing hurdles ranging from economic challenges to language barriers.
Blocker will receive $20,000, which she plans to use to implement a program called Full S.T.E.A.M. Ahead in the LBC. This new initiative will give families the opportunity to explore their Long Beach City community through the lens of Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math (S.T.E.A.M.), a curriculum framework that merges sciences and the arts. In this family engagement project, parents will attend regular workshops and plan five parent and child excursions in the community—exposing parents and children to a global educational approach while building a stronger workforce one family at a time.”
Blocker had this to say about the honor, “At the beginning of each year, I look at the new group of parents as my garden; I know that we all grow as a result of our experiences together. With family literacy as a foundation, parents become more confident, children become more prepared and families become more successful.”
“This year’s winner, Blocker has worked for the past seven years to improve the lives of more than 300 families as a parent education teacher at the Long Beach School for Adults. Blocker and her community’s participants boast numerous achievements,including significant parent engagement and a 90 percent retention of families, despite facing hurdles ranging from economic challenges to language barriers.
Blocker will receive $20,000, which she plans to use to implement a program called Full S.T.E.A.M. Ahead in the LBC. This new initiative will give families the opportunity to explore their Long Beach City community through the lens of Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math (S.T.E.A.M.), a curriculum framework that merges sciences and the arts. In this family engagement project, parents will attend regular workshops and plan five parent and child excursions in the community—exposing parents and children to a global educational approach while building a stronger workforce one family at a time.”
Blocker had this to say about the honor, “At the beginning of each year, I look at the new group of parents as my garden; I know that we all grow as a result of our experiences together. With family literacy as a foundation, parents become more confident, children become more prepared and families become more successful.”
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