June 19, 2019 - Issue: Vol. 165, No. 103 — Daily Edition116th Congress (2019 - 2020) - 1st Session

[Pages S3838-S3839]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        TRIBUTE TO JUDITH PARIS

 Mr. RUBIO. Mr. President, today I honor Judith Paris, the 
Wakulla County Teacher of the Year from Shadeville Elementary School in 
Shadeville, FL.
  Judy's teaching philosophy guides her students to thrive in 
environments where they are encouraged to explain their thinking and 
also understand how their classmates think. She works to create a 
classroom that facilitates a love of learning and where students build 
self-confidence.
  In her classes, groups of students often begin the school year at 40-
50 percent proficiency in math and consistently improve their math 
scores to 90 percent or higher by the end of the school year. She 
credits their success to the instructional practices that she teaches 
to make students solve problems on their own and by working together.
  Judy is a fifth grade math teach and is also her school's math team 
leader and chair of the mathematics committee and coteaches faculty 
workshops on accelerated math. Judy earned her bachelor's degree in 
technical writing with a minor in mathematics from Louisiana State 
University and earned a post baccalaureate degree in mathematics 
education. She is certified in elementary education, middle school 
math, and high school math.

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  Judy has been recognized twice by the Florida Department of Education 
as a High Impact Teacher due to her students' learning gains and has 
earned the Best and Brightest Florida Department of Education award for 
3 consecutive years. She was voted by her supplemental educational 
services colleagues as the September 2018 Teacher of the Month.
  I extend my best wishes and gratitude to Judy for her dedication to 
helping her students succeed in mathematics. I look forward to learning 
of her continued success in the years to come.

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