Make a Difference Award
2006
Three educators recently
won the Special Education Make a Difference Award from the Macomb County’s
Parent Advisory Committee (PAC). These awards are especially meaningful
because students and their parents nominated their favorite educators for
the honor.
This year’s winners are:
Kim
Ayrault, a teacher of young children with special
needs at
Forest Park Elementary School in the East Detroit Public Schools
Sharon Selewonik, a teacher of
young children with special needs at
Thomas Edison Elementary School in the Fraser Public Schools
Shirley McMellen, a
Physical Therapist working with very young children and their families
in the Macomb Infant Preschool Program (MIPP) of the Macomb Intermediate
School District
Congratulations to each of
you from the
Macomb County Parent Advisory Committee
Kim
Ayrault
Kim
Ayrault
strives
to do her best and will settle for nothing less.
Her work ethic began when she played basketball for Grosse Pointe
North
High School, setting many records and earning a full scholarship
to Wayne State University.
There she earned her teaching degree, followed by a master’s
degree in early childhood education from Saginaw Valley State
University.
Kim has been teaching second grade at Forest Park for the past 10
years.
Her strong ability to employ various teaching strategies to
accommodate students’ needs makes her a positive role model.
One parent wrote that Kim’s “love of teaching is apparent and
has transferred onto her students as a love for learning.”
Kim is an outstanding teacher and colleague.
East
Detroit Public Schools
Forest Park Elementary School
Sharon
Selewonik
Sharon
Selewonik
has a master’s degree in
special education for the learning disabled and has taught in Fraser
Public Schools for 28 years.
She has been called a “guardian angel” by her students, whom
she protects from failure by creating an environment where success is a
key factor.
Sharon has a remarkable ability to teach strategies and methods
that help her students become successful learners.
Her expertise and enthusiasm for children, learning and teaching
are laudable.
She is patient and encouraging, working with students whose
problems would be frustrating to most.
Sharon believes parents play a major role in the education
process and her classroom is an inviting and stimulating learning
environment.
Fraser
Public Schools
Thomas Edison Elementary School
Shirley
McMellen
Shirley
McMellen
began
her tenure at Macomb Intermediate School District (MISD) in December
1982.
Prior to coming to the MISD, she worked at Children’s Hospital
of Michigan Rehabilitation Services.
Shirley began her employment at MISD in the Macomb Infant
Preschool Program (MIPP) and has been in the home program since 1993.
She also facilitates the infant massage program
and conducts group sessions in addition to her home programming.
Shirley is a member of the American Physical Therapy Association
and is working on her master’s with a specialization
in early childhood education.
Shirley has committed her professional life to making a
difference for young children and their families.
Macomb
Intermediate School District
MIPP Home Program
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