4/26/2023
Education and Outreach
And many of these hardworking educators received the recognition they deserve on April 21, at The Smith Center’s eighth-annual Heart of Education Awards, celebrating outstanding CCSD teachers.
4/26/2023
Education and Outreach
The club’s contribution directly supports the education and outreach programs at The Smith Center — a nonprofit organization — including the student matinees it presents in its theaters to over 70,000 students each year.
1/30/2023
Education and Outreach
Panamanian-American conductor Kalena Bovell teaches student and educator workshops at The Smith Center.
12/4/2022
Education and Outreach
It will not astonish anyone who knows Siobhan Fergiels, one of 20 teachers to receive a Heart of Education Award in April, that she will use the monetary gift from her award to help her community.
11/30/2022
Education and Outreach
This recognition should not have come as a surprise to Blanco, the founding director of LVHS’s mariachi program, as his accolades are many. These include being named a semifinalist for the 2022 Music Educator Award by the Recording Academy and Grammy Museum.
11/17/2022
Education and Outreach
Corwyn Evans-Klock, or Mr. EK as his students call him, is still in shock that he was awarded a Heart of Education Award earlier this year. “The fact that my student nominated me and that if they hadn’t, I would never have even been able to apply still brings tears to my eyes as I think about it now,” he exclaims, adding, “tears of joy!”
11/8/2022
Education and Outreach
The teaching philosophy of choral teacher Kim Ritzer is simple: when words fail, music speaks.
11/2/2022
Education and Outreach
The center’s new Links to Literature program this year provided approximately 3,000 preschool-to-5th-grade students with complimentary copies of the books that inspired the productions they saw at The Smith Center.
10/28/2022
Education and Outreach
Setting his disbelief aside months later, the kindergarten teacher at Crestwood Elementary School calls receiving a Heart of Education Award an honor. “I am humbled, because I feel like there are many teachers out there who work just as hard as I do,” he says. “Year after year we work without any recognition of our dedication and hard work. To have that recognized was unexpected and gratifying.”
10/24/2022
Education and Outreach
Kathy Clemens exited her career as an educator on a high note. She retired after more than two decades in the Clark County School District (CCSD) with impeccable timing, having received a Heart of Education Award from The Smith Center just a few weeks prior.