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Lori Langlois is the Executive Director of North Country Education Services (NCES) in Gorham, NH. Her professional experience and expertise lies in regionalized educational services in rural areas. Lori is a liaison to various partners for the TRRE program. She hopes to contribute to TRRE by connecting the program and its residents to people and opportunities that further enhance the project. Rural schools are the heart of rural communities and our students are our best hope for sustaining and growing the vibrancy of these small NH towns. Strong STEM skills will only serve to help that cause and therefore TRRE’s work to develop teachers with strong mathematics and science content and pedagogical knowledge can play a vital role in moving these communities forward. In addition to boosting the number of math and science educators in rural schools, Lori anticipates the development of enduring relationships among cohort members that strengthen and expand networking amongst NH’s rural scho...

Jamie  graduated from Unity College in 2011 with a degree in sustainable design and technology. She also earned a Master's of Arts in Teaching Secondary Education Social Studies from Rivier University in 2015. Most recently, Jamie worked for Project Youth at the Family Resource Center in Gorham.   She has experience as Site Director of the Edward Fenn Afterschool Program. Prior to that, she was employed for two years as a paraprofessional at the Berlin Middle School. Jamie is enrolled in the elementary (K-6) certification pathway. Currently, she is a teaching resident at SAU 3 in second grade at Brown Elementary School. 

UNH Aims to Recruit and Retain More Math, Science Teachers in the North Country On November 19, 2018, Daniela Allee of NH Public Radio published a feature story about TRRE. Follow this link and read or listen to the full article at  NHPR White Mountain Regional High School Students at work with a TRRE Teaching Resident (Photo Courtesy of Daniela Allee, NHPR) The NHPR story illustrates how the design of TRRE's teacher residency program is specific to the context of place. Rural students work on a survival project using local natural resources, teaching residents value the small community, and TRRE fills a need within the community to build the capacity of highly-qualified teachers in rural NH. 

Kayla Croteau and Alexzandria Steiner When Kayla Croteau earned her master's in secondary education from UNH in 2015, she never imagined that she was only three short years away from another teacher education experience — this time as a teaching mentor for the University of New Hampshire’s Teacher Residency for Rural Education (UNH-TRRE) program. UNH-TRRE, designed to prepare elementary and secondary math and science teachers to work in rural, high-need New Hampshire schools, is working with its second cohort of future teachers. These UNH students, known as teaching residents, live, learn, teach and volunteer in rural New Hampshire communities over the course of the 15-month master’s program. Croteau serves as a UNH-TRRE teaching mentor to Alexzandria Steiner, a native of St. Johnsbury, Vermont, and current teaching resident in the TRRE program. Steiner, who is seeking secondary certification in life sciences, works with Croteau at Groveton High School, one of the UNH-T...