Pat Belfi, a sixth grade dual-language teacher at Caroline
G. Atkinson School in Freeport has been named a Hofstra University/News 12 Long Island
Educator of the Month. Belfi shares this honor with 11 other teachers from districts in Nassau
and Suffolk Counties. Recently Dr. James R. Johnson, Dean of Hofstra’s
School of Education and Allied Human Services, visited Atkinson School
to present Ms. Belfi with a plaque and to film her at work in her classroom.
The video will be featured sometime next year for one month as a repeated
short highlight on New 12, and also at www.hofstra.edu. Belfi will also
be recognized at a special reception for this year’s Educators of
the Month. Belfi was selected from a group of nearly 200 candidates throughout
Long Island. Selections were made by a committee composed of Hofstra
faculty
members, area school administrators and New York State United Teachers
representatives, based on teaching excellence, extracurricular involvement,
professional leadership in the district, professional involvement outside
the school, honors and awards, educational attainments, student mentoring
and school-community relationships. She shares this distinction with two other Freeport teachers who
were honored in past years, High School social studies teacher Linda
Hendrickson
and
Archer Street reading teacher Carol Varsalona.
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