NATCHITOCHES – Northwestern State University’s School of Education hosted an apple pinning ceremony for future educators who are now teacher candidates.  Students eligible for the pinning are education majors who have completed 30 hours of coursework while maintaining a grade point average of 2.5 or better.

Dr. Katrina Jordan, director of the School, said the pinning is “a milestone on the journey to becoming an educator and work over the next two years builds up to residency” for the teacher candidates.

Teacher candidates are listed by hometowns.

Alexandria — Dalayia Davion, Thomas Johnson, Alissa Roberts

Anacoco — Karlea Welch

Athens, Texas — Jessica Dubose

Atlanta, Texas — Austin Head

Ball — JulieAnn Prince

Bogota, Texas — Harmony Marsh

Bossier City — Julianne Dachel, Haley Henderson

Bridgewater, Massachusetts — Conner Mackie

Brownsville, Texas — Dominick Saldivar

Creole — Amberlee Saltzman

Dubberly — Jayde Burks

Fort Worth, Texas — Kohner Smith

Harlingen, Texas – Cadence Carpio

Houma — Ramiyah Rounds

Jonesboro — Georgia Robinson

Kilgore, Texas — Madeline Horton, Kirk Ybanez

Leesville — Natalie Norris

Madisonville — Barrett Hodgson

Maurice — Eileen Ashley

Mansfield — Kamariya Thomas

Many — Kristen Hammontree, Emma Wilson

Monroe — Madison Bruce

Natchez – Cassidy Gandy

Natchitoches — Abigail Bevill, Armonie Haywood, Emma Miller, Kennedi Revels, Manuel Riego Fernandez, Maria Simien, Ysenia Zapata

Pineville — Jack Blair

Princeton — Natalie Olvera

Quitman — Kaitlyn Williams

St. Petersburg, Florida — Gabriela Marshall

Simsboro — Garrett Moss

Sulphur — Julian Peshoff

Winnfield — Mattie Beaubouef

Zwolle — Madilyn Laroux, Kamaryn Rivers, Victoria Sepulvado

Information on Northwestern State’s School of Education is available at https://www.nsula.edu/education/.

 

Pictured:  Education majors at Northwestern State University received apple pins as they completed their freshman year of coursework and are considered teacher candidates. On the front row from left are Eileen Ashley, Cadence Carpio, Jayde Burks, Kamariya Thomas, Amberlee Saltzman, Dalayia Davion, Julian Peshoff, Kennedi Revels and Conner Mackie.  On the back row are Dr. Katrina Jordan, director of NSU’s School of Education; Natalie Olvera, Victoria Sepulvado, Kamaryn Rivers, Haley Henderson, Emma Miller, Cassidy Gandy, Kristen Hammontree, Madison Bruce, Dominick Saldivar and Dr. Wendi O’Halloran, director of Clinical Practice and Partnerships.