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24 area English teachers attend
Institute for Advanced Studies

LSUS hosted 24 elementary and middle school teachers from five parishes in an Institute for Advanced Studies taught by Dr. Helen Taylor, professor of English.

The institute, funded by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, provided the teachers with hands-on instruction about teaching literature to children. The 16-hour-a-week seminar ran through the month of June.

Each participant received three hours of graduate credit and a $500 stipend, also funded by the LEH. The teachers and their schools by hometown are:

Bossier City: Belinda Krumtum, Benton Middle School; Charlotte Hinson, Eden Gardens Elementary; Kasey Smith, Howell Elementary, and Belinda Cotton, Rusheon Middle Magnet.

Coushatta: Guienne L. Dinkins, Red River Junior High.

Haughton: Nadine Charity, Platt Elementary.

Minden: Winnie McAdams, Webster Junior High.

Shreveport: Jayne Sumner, Caddo Itinerant; April Saint, Elise Aikens and Randy D. Smith, Caddo Middle Magnet; Gina Hahnel and Patty Lee, Eden Gardens Elementary; Ollie Clark, J.S. Clark Middle School; Patrick Kellough, North Desoto Elementary; Abby Hale, Kimberly Adkins, Laurie Bridel and Merry Berry, Southfield School; Michele Gleason, St. Joseph’s School, and Lois Fraser and Susan Johnstone, St. Mark’s School.

Springhill: Clara Devereaux, Brown Middle School.

Stonewall: Angela L. Johnson-Douglas, Eden Gardens Elementary.