MAY 1, 2006

ISSUE 1113

 

ALACHUA COUNTY SCHOOL TEACHER WINS NATIONAL AWARD

Cyanne Williams, a fourth grade teacher at Archer Community School near Gainesville, is one of five teachers nationwide to win the 2006 National Excellence in Teaching about Agriculture award from the USDA's National Agriculture in the Classroom consortium.

Williams, a teaching veteran of 32 years, won the award for the southern region after being nominated earlier this year as Florida Agriculture in the Classroom, Inc.'s overall Excellence inTeaching about Agriculture award winner for 2006.

She will be honored at the National Agriculture in the Classroom Conference June 20-24 in Atlantic City, N.J.