[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 76 (Thursday, May 10, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S2618]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      TRIBUTE TO LENORA HENDERSON

 Mr. RUBIO. Mr. President, today I honor Lenora Henderson, the 
Washington County Teacher of the Year from Chipley High School in 
Chipley, FL.
  When Lenora began teaching chemistry, she quickly learned that her 
students became bored with lectures. They were more interested and 
performed better when they were doing more than just listening. She saw 
they loved being out of their seats, talking, and trying to figure 
things out on their own. As a result, she designed her lesson plans to 
include such activity.
  Over the past few years, she developed a curriculum with the hopes of 
eventually flipping her classroom. Flipping means she has removed 
lectures from part of the curriculum and reserved that time for higher-
order thinking skills and project-based learning.
  Her regular and honors chemistry classes are partially flipped, while 
her advanced placement chemistry class is completely flipped. Her 
students use livescribes and a livebinder to retrieve background 
information before coming to class to discuss assignments. This allows 
more time in class for them to complete individual hands-on activities, 
laboratories, and cooperative learning activities.
  Lenora was excited to receive the Teacher of the Year recognition, 
saying she has been waiting for a long time, but stated in her 
acceptance speech she knew this would happen on God's timing, not her 
own. Her faith plays a key role when it comes to teaching. She has been 
with the Washington County School District for 12 years.
  I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Lenora for all of the 
hard work she does for her students. I extend my best wishes to her and 
look forward to hearing of her future endeavors.

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