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Lawrence High School science teacher Lisa Ball was given the opportunity to participate in an international education exchange program to teach and learn abroad.
For her “leadership and contributions to society,” Ball received the 2022-23 Fulbright Teachers’ Global Classroom Program Award from the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarships Commission, according to a news release.
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Ball teaches AP Environmental Science and Ecology/Environmental Science at Lawrence High School and previously taught at Billy Mills Middle School.
“I am so humbled and ecstatic about this opportunity to extend my own learning and bring the world into my classroom,” Ball said in a release.
This is not Ball’s first time teaching abroad, nor is it his first teaching award. According to the teacher’s page on her school district’s website, she sailed last year as her Fellow of Ocean Her Exploration Her Trust’s Science Her Communications, including her class at Lawrence High School from her ship. , I was able to teach classes all over the world.
She was also awarded the 2020 KEEP Konza Teacher of the Year and Earthwatch Teacher Fellow in 2009 and 2017, and became a member of the Toyota International Teachers Program in the Galapagos Islands in 2010.
As part of the Fulbright program, Ball will attend a 10-week online global education class and attend a symposium in Washington, DC. 3 weeks this spring or summer.
Led by the US government in partnership with more than 160 countries, the Fulbright Program aims to expand the world’s knowledge. Ball now joins more than 400,000 teachers, journalists, artists, scientists and other professionals who have been selected for the program as a result of their “academic merit and leadership potential,” according to a news release. Finally, Ball will create a capstone project detailing her experience.
For more information on the 75-year-old Fulbright program, please visit this link.
Ball could not be reached for comment by the time of publication.
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