TeachHouse Fellow and Program Honors

Justice Hatcher received a shoutout on CNN10
Jessica On was named a GoGlobal NC Global Teacher Fellow
Izabela Willis was selected to participate in NC's Community of Practice Pilot Program sponsored by the NC Department of Public Instruction and U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. The program is focused on ways to bring inquiry-based instruction to Holocaust education
Bre Anna Clinkscales is Duke University's nominee for NC Association of Colleges for Teacher Education Student Teacher of the Year and a state finalist for this award (2025)

Bre Anna Clinkscales received the Virginia S. Wilson Excellence in Teaching Award
Myriama Smith Traore named a 2025-2026 Kenan Fellow for Teacher Leadership by NC State University
Jessica On, Grace Klein and Dr. Jan Riggsbee presented "From TeachHouse to Teach Ins" at the Southeast Regional Coalition for University Assisted Community Schools Symposium
Bre Anna Clinkscales is Duke University's nominee for NC Association of Colleges for Teacher Education Student Teacher of the Year (2025).
Zach Meredith named a Pauli Murray Social Justice Teaching Fellow
Akanke Mason-Hogans named Beginning Teacher of the Year at Riverside High School in her first year of teaching.

TeachHouse alumni Colin Wolgemuth (2021-2022) named Durham School of the Arts 2025 Beginning Teacher of the Year
Jessica On named NC Association of Colleges for Teacher Education Student Teacher of the Year in 2024
Akanke Mason-Hogans presented at the NC Association of Colleges for Teacher Education Fall Forum: “I Don’t Really Like Science”: Improving Self-Perceptions of Scientific Aptitude in BIPOC Adolescents Through Representation and Teacher Leadership

Dorcas Gyekye named the Jordan High School Beginning Teacher of the Year
Kelly Marsh named the Club Boulevard Elementary School Beginning Teacher of the Year for the second consecutive year
Abby Wood named the Riverside High School Beginning Teacher of the Year
Grace Klein received the Githens Middle School Raider Shield of Excellence (for outstanding teaching)
Akanke Mason-Hogans received the Virginia S. Wilson Excellence in Teaching Award
Elena Blackwelder, Kim Hernandez-Lartigue, Akanke Mason-Hogans, and Zach Meredith received the North Carolina Governor’s Emerging Teacher Leadership Award
Kristen Rigsby received the (STAR) Student Teacher Assistance for Retention Scholarship
Myriama Smith-Traore presented at the 2024 American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting
Duke TeachHouse featured as the Duke Board of Trustees' Mission Moment (December 2023)
TeachHouse receives grant award from The William R. Kenan Charitable Trust (2023-2026)

Alejandra Gómez appointed to the Durham Public Schools Community Wellness and Safety Task Force
Dorcas Gyekye received an educator grant award from we are (Working to Extend Antiracist Education)
Kelly Marsh named the Club Boulevard Elementary School Beginning Teacher of the Year
Duke TeachHouse recognized by the NC Department of Public Instruction as a NC Promising Practice in Education

Michele Saunders named the Durham Public Schools Equity Champion (March 2022)
Brianna Rochelle named the Club Boulevard Elementary School Beginning Teacher of the Year
Alejandra Gómez named Brogden Middle School Beginning Teacher of the Year

Dorcas Gyekye named state finalist for NC Student Teacher of the Year
Dorcas Gyekye selected to participate in the Case Method Institute training with Harvard Professor David Moss
Alejandra Gómez received the William J. Griffith University Service Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Durham and Local Community from Duke University NC Campus Compact
Alejandra Gómez received the Community Impact Student Award from Duke University
Madeleine Sparrow received Duke's Cornerstone Award for demonstrating commitment to improving the lives of students, faculty, and staff at Duke and in the Durham community

Michele Saunders received the Virginia S. Wilson Excellence in Teaching Award from Duke University’s MAT Program
Alejandra Gómez received the Middle School Teacher of the Summer Award from Student U (Durham nonprofit)
Carter Zenke collaborated with Durham educators and the NC Department of Public Instruction to develop North Carolina’s elementary computer science curriculum
Mary Margaret Mills received National Board Certification

Carter Zenke named the Tom Nechyba TeachHouse Innovation Fellow
Ashley Pollard was named a 2018 - 2019 Pablo Eisenberg Interest Fellow at Georgetown University and concurrently worked on the Committee on Education at the Council of the District of Columbia
Savannah Windham received National Board Certification

Shannon Potter awarded Beginning Teacher of the Year at Jordan, selected as a district finalist for Durham Public Schools Beginning Teacher of the Year (High School Division), and named the 2017 Durham Public Schools Beginning Teacher of the Year (High School Division)
Ashley Pollard awarded Beginning Teacher of the Year at Pearsontown Elementary School and selected as a district finalist for 2017 Durham Public Schools Beginning Teacher of the Year (Elementary School Division)
Mary Margaret Mills received the Hollyhock Fellowship from Stanford University, Gilder Lehrman Fellowship on Colonial American, and three National Endowment for Humanities Fellowships

Emily Stout completed teacher fellowships with the National Endowment for the Humanities, Colonial Williamsburg, George Washington’s Mount Vernon, the 9/11 Memorial and Museum, Atlantik-Bruecke, and the National WWII Museum
Savannah Windham received the Hollyhock Fellowship from Stanford University

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