Teacher Feature

Tucker's Teacher won this week's "Teacher Feature" award from KSL Radio!
http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=191

KSL Newsradio and Zions Bank are proud sponsors of "Teacher Feature". In its sixteenth year, "Teacher Feature" highlights outstanding teachers throughout the State of Utah. Winning teachers are announced each Tuesday morning on KSL Radio's Grant and Amanda show.

Each teacher is honored with a plaque from Zions Bank, an overnight stay at Anniversary Inn, a gift certificate for dinner at the beautiful La Caille Restaurant, and a pair of season tickets from Hale Centre Theater, West Valley . All winners are invited to attend an end of the year banquet at La Caille in their honor

Roxann Shipman - Quest Academy
April 19th, 2011 @ 12:36pm
My son, Tucker, her 4th grade student was just diagnosed with a relapse of his previous cancer, Leukemia, on January 29th. We were admitted to Primary Children's Hospital for 12 days. Mrs. Shipman came up to the hospital multiple times to be with Tucker (after school & on weekends), to go over home work, to read to him, to hold his hand- anything and everything she could do for her student she did and is continuing to do. She has requested to continue to be his teacher even though Tucker cannot attend school. She brought up a web cam and microphone and set him up with Skype (and her classroom also) so Tucker can "attend class" at home. She is also coming over after school & weekends, on her own time to tutor/teach my son. She is going above and beyond her duties as a teacher to teach my son. And more than that, she is educating her class about Tucker and making this Skype sessions a "normal" part of class because all her students were close with Tucker. So not only is she helping my son, she is helping all the kids in the class deal with this problem in a positive educational light.

She is amazing and deserves this award.

Thank you.

-Amber Dickamore