LOS BANOS, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A teacher from Los Banos is making a quality successful her classes. To grant her, a nationalist nonprofit enactment has fixed her its Honored National Teaching Award for the period of April.
Honored is simply a nationalist nonprofit enactment dedicated to honoring and elevating large teachers. According to its website, the enactment holds programs to engage, inspire, and clasp large teachers crossed the country.
Organizers with Honored accidental for the period of April, which is besides Autism Acceptance Month, they person selected Kiersten Wood, a archetypal done third-grade peculiar time people teacher. She is simply a teacher astatine Henry Miller Elementary School successful Los Banos.
Each month, the enactment selects a teacher to grant with its Honored National Teaching Award. The designation includes a personalized plaque, a $5,000 unrestricted currency award, a diagnostic connected the organization's podcast and societal media coverage.
"This designation highlights bonzer educators who animate their students," Honored organizers said.
According to organizers, Wood was nominated by the parents of 1 of her students, Payton. Payton's begetter says that helium has seen a singular societal maturation wrong and extracurricular of the classroom. He besides says that done Wood's guidance, they person besides gained cognition astir autism, helping them amended recognize and link with their son.


When talking astir being a teacher connected the Inspiring Teachers: The Honored Podcast, Wood says she tries to make beardown and long-lasting connections with her students.
"When parents nonstop their kids to schoolhouse each day, they expect that they’re going to beryllium safe; they expect that they’re going to beryllium loved," Wood said. "And if that’s each that I supply for them connected that day, past I consciousness similar I’ve done my job."