Kim Clemons
As far as money goes, you're going to have to balance it, you know? What are the costs, what are the, you know, what are the benefits? Then you're going to have to weigh it.
Brandon Johnson -
Ms. Clemons is a wonderful teacher, and she's very creative. She's teaching us about vocabulary and thinking skills, and I think she's just a very swell teacher.
Melanie Nelson -
She's truly more of a facilitator, and that's what I want from all of my teachers, not just the teacher of the gifted students. She sets the pace, gives them the lesson, and watches them fly. So when you're in there, you're not watching her. You're watching them. And the excitement comes from them being hands-on and engaged.
May Harris -
She's very like hyper-active, like, she likes talking a lot, like, she talks to us, and she sometimes speaks to us in like a different language.
Kim Clemons -
Ferme la bouche. That means close your mouth in French.
Vivian Mclean-Robinson -
A lot of times you have to expose students to the curriculum they're interested in. I think she provides them high interest material, which also keeps them highly engaged, and that really goes over well with the children.
Katie O'Neal -
When you get to work together with your friends, and she helps you figure it out, and you learn, is what makes it fun.
Gregory Mills -
Sometimes she'll read stories out of a book, and it has missing parts, and you have to try and fill it in.
Sherrie Treigle -
She had a competition where they had to come up with a word that she didn't understand the definition to, and they would come to her with the word to try to stump her. And then I finally had one student that thought of a word that they were able to stump her on, that she didn't know the definition to, and he came back to the room so excited. So it just gets them thinking out of the box.
Vivian Mclean-Robinson -
These are kids who score a little higher than the average student, and she's able to bring creativity and innovation to them, which is a real plus for our school.
Brandon Johnson -
We take chicken bones, and we make dinosaurs out of chicken bones, and we write a story on our dinosaurs.
Melanie Nelson -
Every kid in 2nd grade loves dinosaurs, so she brings in their interests. She ties it back to a lesson.
Katie O'Neal -
We're going to put them on a piece of paper, and you just- she's going to hot glue them on for us, once we get it laid out the way we want it, and then we have to write a story about it. It's called, "A Dinosaur Named After Me."
Sherrie Treigle -
She does a lot of group projects so that they can work together, and learn social skills. It's very important that students learn to work together because they're going to be doing that in their future. And the kids that she has to create, those are going to be our future leaders, that are going to be directing different groups, and designing programs and projects.
May Harris -
I learned team work and friendship, because you have to work well with other people, and you have to learn how to be friends with other people, too.
Brandon Johnson -
It helps us become social, and she's loves us to work together, so we learn more vocabulary skills.
Gregory Mills -
We do projects of the solar system. We stuffed a sun and colored the outside of it. Next Monday we're going to make the planets around to help us learn how the planets rotate around the sun, how cold and how hot it is.
Vivian Mclean-Robinson -
She's very enthusiastic, she's very motivated about what she's doing. Ms. Clemons takes on education whole-heartedly.
Melanie Nelson -
I have really and truly never seen a teacher get so excited about the lesson. If she's made them excited about the lesson by the time I come in and ask them questions, they're in the moment with the descriptions. They are fully engaged, happy, proud of the outcome of their work, and eager to share it with someone else.
Brandon Johnson -
She makes it fun and interesting. Those are my favorite parts.
Sherrie Treigle -
We love her. She's, you know, positive and willing to help. I mean, everybody just thinks very highly of her.
May Harris -
She's just, like, awesome.
Gregory Mills -
Hi Ms. Clemons. I think you did a great job teaching. You're a good teacher, and I think you deserve that award. Congratulations.
Vivian Mclean-Robinson -
Congratulations Kim. You are so deserving of this reward, and on behalf of Biloxi School District, congratulations. Please continue to do great things for children, at our school, and wherever it is you venture on after this. Thanks.
May Harris -
Thank you Ms. Clemons for teaching us about all of the stuff that we needed to learn about, this year, and last year, and all of the other years.
Sherrie Treigle -
Ms. Clemons, on behalf of your co-workers at Jeff Davis Elementary, and your students here, I would like to congratulate you on receiving the Alan Barton Award. Thanks for all that you do.
Katie O'Neal -
Thank you for being the best teacher, one of the best teachers, in the world that I have ever had.
Melanie Nelson -
Ms. Clemons, you've got moxie.
Brandon Johnson -
Ms. Clemons, thank you for making me who I am today. I love you.
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