NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — Hutchinson USD 308 brought 20 community leaders into its buildings on Thursday for its second annual Educator for a Day event in celebration of American Education Week.
"This is more than a tour," said USD 308 spokesperson Marissa Meis. "That's something that we really wanted to get across this year. School tours are something that happen all the time. You walk through, you see some classrooms, you see the buildings, kind of the technical things, but we wanted to show the real, adaptive challenges that happen inside our school buildings."
The purpose of the experience is they provide an opportunity to highlight the challenges and rewards of education and show how USD 308 is investing in their staff, students and families.
"Community members might read to a classroom, or might participate in a science experiment," Meis said. "They might do an art project with classes. They might be in a PE class. Those are the really exciting things."
This year’s Educator for a Day participants are:
- Kendra Fesler – HutchRec
- Michelle Patton – Hutchinson Police Department
- Cheryl Gonsalves – Hutchinson Clinic
- Elicia Lance – Boys & Girls Club of Hutchinson
- Starla Wells – United Way of Reno County
- Tonya Culp – Reno County Health Department
- Jacelyn Chambers – Hutchinson Art Association, Inc.
- Sarah Blake – Hutchinson Community Foundation
- Randy Partington – Reno County Local Government
- Nicolas Atanasio – Cosmosphere
- Stefan Carlin - Cosmosphere
- Cheryl Thompson – USD 308 Board of Education
- Kail Denison – USD 308 Board of Education
- Melissa McElheny – Reno County Emergency Communications
- Nathan Towle – Hutchinson Public Library
- Ashleigh Harris – Credit Union of America
- Courtney Thompson – Keller Williams Hometown Partners
- David Foster – Hutchinson YMCA
- Darrin Regier – Hutchinson YMCA
- Shane DeWeese – Hutchinson YMCA