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Delwiche honored with Faculty Excellence Award
Carpinteria-local and Laguna Blanca kindergarten teacher, Mieke Delwiche, has received the school’s 2020 Faculty Excellence Award. Since 2009, Delwiche has ushered in scores of youngsters to Laguna while opening their hearts and minds to a love of learning, stated the school. “Through a range of activities that spark wonder, she encourages her students to explore, inquire, and imagine,” said Delwiche’s colleague Mrs. Vance. First Grade Instructor Elyse Vanetti agreed, stating, “Mieke’s students enter my classroom with a strong foundation in reading, writing, and mathematical skills. They are already reading, which is not the norm for beginning first graders.” The reading skills students learn in Delwiche’s class foster independence and confidence in other subjects, preparing them to read directions and gather information on various subjects more independently. The success of Delwiche’s students speaks to her many creative and engaging teaching styles. She is known on campus as the “master of differentiation,” making lessons accessible for all. Gifted in identifying what each student needs in a lesson, she creates activities tailored to those individual needs. According to her colleagues, it’s not unusual to walk into her classroom and find six differentiated centers where students are working interactively on concepts with the support they need to stretch their learning. Delwiche takes a community-minded approach. She has helped to build programs with her colleagues—from Read Every Day! and Swooper Citizens, a character education curriculum for Grades K & 1, to the STEM unit integrating Newton’s Laws of Motion using the Magna Wall.
Mieke Delwiche taught kindergarten at Canalino Elementary School before taking her current role at Laguna Blanca. When the school shifted to online learning in March, Delwiche quickly became the go-to person for many as she continued to eagerly share and implement technology tips and tutorials that eased the minds of staff members and families as they moved to successful online learning. As an expert blogger and vlogger, Delwiche keeps parents well-informed with exactly what’s happening in the classroom. Parents can regularly see their kindergartener in action with her
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daily blog posts. Native to Carpinteria, Delwiche pursued a bilingual teaching credential at the University of San Diego before returning home and teaching for five years in a bilingual classroom at Canalino Elementary School. During that time, she earned her Master’s in Education from Cal Lutheran University with an emphasis in teaching reading. Mieke and her husband, John, have four children, and she has served as the
beloved kindergarten teacher for her three youngest children. The Laguna Blanca School Faculty Excellence Award recognizes recipients— nominated by their peers—for their demonstrated excellence in teaching and their dedication to the school and its students. Thanks to an endowment from alumni parents Steven and Marilyn Gutsche, recipients receive a cash award and a $3,000 stipend for travel, workshops, equipment and teaching materials.
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