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Centennial teacher earns Air Force association honor
Melissa Girmscheid teaches AP physics
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Centennial High School 14388 N. 79th Ave. Peoria, AZ
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Melissa Girmscheid, of Centennial High School, 14388 N. 79th Ave., Peoria, earned Air Force Association Arizona Teacher of the Year honors.
Ms. Girmscheid teaches AP Physics and is the Peoria Education Association secretary.
In 2019, Ms. Girmscheid worked with a team of Arizona physics superstars to successfully support ongoing education funding for STEM and CTE teachers with the goal to ensure that every Arizona student has access to high quality physics education.
This past summer she was among the educators that the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) announced as Fellows selected for the 2019 Master Teacher Policy Fellowship, funded by the AIP Venture Partnership Fund.
This program brought together educators with experience in high school physics and K-8 physical science teaching to develop strategic plans to positively impact policy as it relates to elementary and secondary physics education. The program aims to empower and support teacher-driven efforts to improve educational policy at the state and/or large district level as it pertains to the teaching and learning of physics.
This 12-month program brought together cohorts of K-12 teachers of physics during an eight-day workshop experience in Washington D.C.