The Robert J. Greef Award, given by the Missouri Council of Teachers of English each year to one outstanding graduate in secondary English Education at each Missouri university, was awarded to BSE graduate Stephaney Ferguson. The daughter of Steven and Veronica Ferguson and a native of Saint Joseph, she graduated high school from Saint Joseph Christian School, then graduated cum laude from MWSU in December of 2018. Award winners were honored on March 1 at the Write to Learn conference in Osage Beach.
Stephaney was a volunteer at the Prairie Lands Writing Project’s annual High School Writing Day where she assisted high school students attending writing workshops on campus. She was also an enthusiastic supporter of young writers in the MWSU’s English Education program’s partnership with Bode Middle School. She is currently teaching high school English at Bishop LeBlond High School in Saint Joseph, where she continues her commitment to teaching lessons and units which include themes of empathy and listening to silenced voices. This summer she plans to teach English in Japan and in the future hopes to purse graduate studies in linguistics and Asian languages.
Congratulations, Stephaney!
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