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Partner Perspectives - White Mountain Science and SAU 36 STEAM

Ms. Jellison - TRRE Teaching Mentor and STEAM Coordinator at White Mountains Regional High School Ms. Jellison is an eleven year veteran in the classroom teaching both middle school and high school with a focus on science and inquiry based learning. Ms. Jellison is hosting one of the TRRE residents for the 2017-2018 school year. This teaching resident has become an integral component to the learning environment at WMRHS. What makes the TRRE program important is the dedication to the North Country. Working in a rural community is a unique experience. Rural settings can also be great places to work, especially since teaching in these areas is much more relationship-driven between the community providers and families. Teaching residents are not only embedded into the school environment, but they are also outside the classroom walls volunteering in the communities in which they work and live. I hope to continue in being an advocate for the program and would love to be a mentor ...

Meet a Teaching Resident

My name is Holly Munce and I am a proud member of the first TRRE cohort. My placement is in grade 5 at Hillside Elementary School in Berlin with my strand focus of Elementary Education, kindergarten through grade 6. Over the summer, my community internship was two-fold. I was a volunteer with the Family Resource Center in Gorham, NH where I shared time observing Family Reunification Visits as well as spending time with the summer youth program for children 6-11 years old. Prior to my participation in the TRRE program, I was an economics teacher at New Hampton School in New Hampton, NH, then settled in Berlin fourteen years ago. Since becoming a permanent fixture in the Berlin community, I became a parent to two amazing children and joined the Berlin School District as a Title 1 paraprofessional where I worked for six years. Joining the TRRE cohort was a natural progression in my deeper connection to the community and to education. The program was suggested to me by my buildin...