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Radio spots continue on WJBR 99.5FM and WDEL 1150AM New this year: Unsung Hero of the Month Award from WDSD for ESP staff. of the Month recognition program. Spread the word that one can go to www.wjbr.com, click on Contests at the top, then VIP Club Contests. Then click on the Teacher of the Month Contest. You will have to register, but that only takes an email address and creating a pass- word. Anyone can nominate a W favorite teacher or specialist: a parent, student, grandparent, even a colleague. The honored teacher/specialist receives a surprise visit from DSEA and WJBR personalities; a plaque and dinner for two at Café Gellato; plus recognition in this publication and on both the DSEA and Great Schools Facebook pages. Last year 10 Delaware teachers were so honored. This is the second year of this sponsorship, funded by the Great Schools Great Commun- ities public outreach budget line. New – WDSD 94.7FM and DSEA to recog- nize ESP educators In today's schools, everyone contributes to student success I n addition to teachers and spe- cialists, students often turn to other school staff (paras, secre- taries, custodians, food service workers and bus drivers) to provide them with the emotional or instruc- tional lift they need. JBR 99.5FM is continuing its partnership with us as we sponsor their Teacher Great Schools make Great Communities DSEA sponsors the Blue Rocks bookmarks For five years now, the book- marks that Rockie Bluewinkle distributes to students during his school visits (see right) have been produced thanks to DSEA. They talk about Rocky's Reading Challenge: read ten books, note them on the bookmark, and bring the completed bookmark back to your teacher to win two tickets to a pre-determined Blue Rocks game. We're now trying to figure out how we can get Rocky Blue- winkle and Dr. Seuss' Cat in the Hat together. Congratulations to John Sell, Delaware's Teacher of the Year for 2013 J ohn Sell teaches English at Sussex Tech High School in Georgetown, the first Delaware Teacher of the Year from that vo-tech district. A member of Sussex Tech E.A./DSEA/NEA, he is in his twenty-third year of teaching, having first taught at Caesar Rodney High School. Coincidentally, while there, he taught English to last year's Teacher of the Year, Amber Augustus, who now teaches 5th grade at John Bassett Moore Intermediate School in Smyrna. Congratulations, John! WDSD and DSEA invite you to spread the word about this opportu- nity to go to wdsd.comand fill out a nomination form telling why that special school employee deserves recognition as an all-star educator! The program will begin in November, and will include fre- quent promotions on the station during the day, as well as 60-second radio spots recorded by our own DSEA officers, Mike Hoffmann (vice president and a para in Colonial), and Karen Crouse (trea- surer, and a financial secretary in Lake Forest). 6 October 2012 DSEA ACTION! Great Schools Facebook page has an amazing 8,842 "likes" page at www.facebook.com/great schoolsgreatcommunities. Check it out! See what parents and others are saying about various posts. I While you're on the web, check out the web site at www.great schoolsgreatcommunities.com where we've put News about public education, Teacher Tips including some video (for both parents and students), Delaware Schools Work (great things that are happening) and an Action Center where people can email letters to the editor and/or their legislators. We also invite them to sign a petition in support of great public schools. Radio ads continue year- long We run DSEA radio spots in sup- port of great public schools year- long on WDEL 1150AM. Our Teacher of the Month and ESP of the Month radio spots also run year-round on WJBR 99.5FM and, new this year, on WDSD 94.7FM. We also use our Great Schools funding for month-long radio spots at strategic times during the school year, i.e. January, sometimes May, and the back-to-school period in August. n addition to a community web- site, we have a Great Schools Great Communities facebook www.dsea.org