Emints National Center Recognizes King for Educational Excellence

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A teacher in Baldwin County, Ala., is being called a "beacon of excellence and dedication in the pursuit of educational innovation."

Jeremy King is the recipient of the 2024 eMINTS Innovative Educator Award, named in honor of eMINTS founding member Jennifer Kuehnle, who "demonstrates exceptional qualities and serve as resilient changemakers in the field of education," per a release from Baldwin County Public Schools.

King, who is the education technology support services coordinator for BCPS, tells Gulf Coast Media that it's "very humbling because I feel like my team members are the real heroes."

eMINTS is a professional development program for teachers that focuses on lesson design and delivery.

"I think that's the one major misunderstanding about education today," King says.

"It's not just pulling out the teacher's edition and going on to the next lesson in the book.

Really great teachers spend a lot more time planning and crafting than time you see them in the classroom."

King says that at any given time there are about 12 trainers working with teachers and that he's included in that number, but "it's really a team effort."

He says that many teachers of the year and National Board-Certified Teachers are participants in the

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