"Bridges to the Future" Teachers Make a Difference Books are Here!

The "Bridges to the Future" Teachers Make a Difference Volume V books have arrived! To order your copy, please contact Eldene Wall at 509.665.2629 or eldenew@ncesd.org. This inspiring book includes stories from students in many of our North Central ESD schools, including scholarship winners Laura Bohoroquez (Brewster), Patricia Limon (Eastmont), Jeanene Russo (Ephrata) and Malea Kerr (Moses Lake). To learn more about this project see scholarship winners>>. You will want to learn how "Teachers Make a Difference" encourages students to become teachers and makes teachers, who sometimes feel discouraged, feel appreciated.

Also Available: Reaching the Summit

Reaching the Summit, our 2006 Teachers Make a Difference book, is also available for purchase. This book includes inspiring stories by students from districts in Chelan, Douglas, Grant, and Okanogan counties, as well as successful teachers, telling how their lives were blessed by a teacher who cares.

Included are stories by students from Brewster, Cascade, Cashmere, Central WA University, Coulee-Hartline, Eastmont, Ephrata, Mansfield, Manson, Methow Valley, Moses Lake, Okanogan, Orondo, Pateros, Puyallup, Stehekin, Warden, Waterville, and Wenatchee School Districts . Stories from Anna Johnson’s English class at Eastmont Junior High are also part of our book.

Other highlights of the book include a foreword and inspiring stories by Mac Bledsoe, speaker, president and founder of “Parenting with Dignity,” and stories by: Ron Scutt, Stehekin teacher and Milken award winner; Tim Lawless, Cascade School District teacher, administrator, Wal-Mart teacher of the year; and Ric Bayless, Mansfield School District teacher and two-time Excellence Award winner.

Proceeds from the third Teachers Make a Difference book, published in 2004, funded scholarships for three graduating seniors: Pamela Alvarado from Eastmont School District, Nicole Benoit from Wenatchee School District, and Adeline Estes from Methow Valley School District.

If you have questions or would like to purchase this book ($12), please call Eldene Wall at (509) 665-2629; e-mail eldenew@ncesd.org; or send a check made out to Teachers Make a Difference. You can also see the ESD website www.ncesd.org for more information.

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Has a teacher made a difference in your life? If so, we are offering a wonderful opportunity for you to show appreciation to that special teacher. We are in the process of collecting stories to be included in our fourth edition of Teachers Make a Difference, and we would love to include a story about YOU and YOUR teacher.

Teachers Make a DifferenceIV will include essays written by our 2005 Teachers Make a Difference scholarship applicants, featuring our winners, Pamela Alvarado from Eastmont School District, Nicole Benoit from Wenatchee School District, and Adeline Estes from Methow Valley School District. This book will be sold to fund a scholarship for 2006. To reserve your copy of book four, please contact Eldene Wall at eldenew@ncesd.org or call (509) 665-2629.

If you would like to be part of this rewarding project, or order Lighting the Way for Others, our third “Teachers Make a Difference book, please call or e-mail Eldene Wall at the address above.