By Aariel Charbonnet Amy Shank Burlington Elementary Where are you from? Roanoke County. Education: Bachelor of Arts in elementary education from Virginia Tech; master's degree in educational administration and supervision from Radford University.

By Jaime Ingle, Belleville News-Democrat, Ill. Aug. 19--Sharon Spotanski puts her lab smarts to good use in her sixth-grade classroom at East St. Louis Lincoln Middle School. "In the back of my mind I had always thought about teaching," she said. "It was all about timing.

By Paul Westmoore Only a dozen city residents weathered Monday night's snowfall to attend a public forum concerning three scenarios the Niagara Falls School Board is considering to consolidate district buildings to compensate for the drop in student enrollment.

By Paul Westmoore, The Buffalo News, N.Y. Dec. 5-

By Laura Hancock Deseret Morning News ALPINE -- Students in a recent science class at Westfield Elementary were required to figure out the workings of a humdinger, a shoebox-size simple machine that hummed with a motor and dinged with a bell. The machine also contained a battery, circuit and lever.