THOUSAND OAKS : Math Teacher Wins Presidential Award
A first-grade teacher from Thousand Oaks is the first elementary school mathematics teacher from California to be awarded the prestigious Presidential Award for Excellence in teaching.
Christina Myren, 44, a teacher at Acacia Elementary School in the Conejo Valley Unified School District, is one of four teachers selected to receive the national award. This is the first year that elementary schoolteachers have been eligible.
Nationwide, 108 elementary science and math teachers and an equal number of high school teachers will receive the award. Myren, one of four California teachers selected for the honor, was chosen from among more than 2,000 elementary school math applicants statewide.
Myren and her husband Ronald, a teacher at Simi Valley High School, will receive an all-expense paid trip to Washington, D.C., in October. Myren will receive $7,500 for improving math curriculum at Acacia.
Myren, 44, has taught at Acacia for four of her 22 years as a teacher. She also has taught math to teachers at Cal Lutheran University and Cal State Northridge.
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