Local Teacher Wins Award
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Award-winning teacher Sheena Wortman is flanked by School Board Member Merle Young and Blaine County Superintendent of Schools Valerie White.
On May 5, Sheena Wortman, who teaches at Bear Paw Elementary School (BPES) in South Blaine County, learned she had won a Rural Teacher Appreciation Award from Hill County Electric Cooperative. A $1500 cash prize accompanied the award.
Currently in her 15th year as an educator, Wortman began her career as a second grade teacher in Big Sandy, where she also taught junior high math due to a shortage of teachers that year. After moving to Chinook, she accepted a teaching position in Harlem where she served as the librarian at the elementary school for several years but devoted one year to teach...
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