ASU's Education College Hosts Symposium

Angelo State University announced today that Shanna Peeples, the 2015 National Teacher of the Year, will be the featured speaker for Angelo State University’s College of Education Symposium on Monday, March 28, in the Houston Harte University Center, located at 1910 Rosemont Drive.

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An advocate for literacy who was also the 2015 Texas Teacher of the Year, Peeples will speak at 7 p.m. in the University Center’s C.J. Davidson Conference Center. The event will be sponsored by the college, the Phi Delta Kappa professional educators association and the Kappa Delta Pi education honor society. The event is free and open to the public.

Peeples has been an English teacher at Palo Duro High School in Amarillo for six years. She is a big advocate for literacy. Because Amarillo is one of several cities in the United States that helps resettle refugees, Peeples works with many students who speak English as a second language.

 “My students, survivors of deep and debilitating trauma, have shaped the kind of teacher I am,” she said. “They have taught me to never make a promise I can’t keep because so many already have learned to see the world through suspicious eyes. To be the best teacher to them, I have to remember this and honor their background. I remember so I can gain their trust because I want them to read and write their way out of where they are.”

Peeples has an associate’s degree from Amarillo College, a bachelor’s from West Texas A&M University and a Master of Education from the University of Texas at Arlington.

For more information on the symposium, call the College of Education at 325-942-2212.