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June 2014 • A1
Village Living Volume 5 | Issue 3 | June 2014
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For the children
The MBHS girls tennis team claimed the state title this year. Find out how inside.
Sports page B8
Thanks, Dad Alabama Teacher of the Year Ann Marie Corgill discusses how to grow children in classrooms By MADOLINE MARKHAM Ann Marie Corgill sees value in learning that can’t be measured. As the school year came to a close last month, her fourth-grade students at Cherokee Bend Elementary wrote reflection letters about Mountain Brook residents share lessons they have learned from their fathers. Read them in this issue.
Community page B10
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Cherokee Bend Elementary teacher Ann Marie Corgill leads her students in EdCamp, a technology training session. Corgill was named Alabama Teacher of the Year in May. Photo by Karim Shamsi-Basha.
what they had learned in her classroom. “It’s eye opening to read them,” she said. “I can see their growth, and I can see evidence of their skills being enhanced.” Corgill, who was named the 2014-2015 Alabama Teacher of the Year in May, hopes to see standardized testing become deemphasized and
multiple means of student growth incorporated in classrooms, among other ideas she hopes to spread as the spokesperson for the state in the next year.
See TEACHER | page A18
Contagious love Mountain Brook residents carry on next steps for Ugandan schools By MADOLINE MARKHAM
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Nancy Peeples describes Kitgum, Uganda, as the most physically uncomfortable place she has ever been. But as she and her daughters discuss the war-torn area from the comfort of their living room on Euclid Avenue, they are overcome with a desire to go back. Nancy’s attraction to the area started in 2012 when she and friend Francie Deaton — who will tell you she never wanted to go to Uganda — had lunch with an Australian woman, “Mama Irene” Gleeson, at Brio at Brookwood Village.
See UGANDA | page A19
While in Kitgum, Uganda, Mark Peeples spends time with a boy named Stephen who had been treated at the Irene Gleeson Foundation for years and started walking without his crutches or leg braces shortly after this picture was taken. Photo courtesy of IGF.