Awards
BCCTM Mathematics Teacher of the Year is an honor bestowed upon 1 Elementary School Teacher and 1 Secondary School Teacher every year. Teachers are nominated by members and administrators each year. The nominees then complete a Teacher of the Year packet and a winner is chosen by the BCCTM board. The winner is recognized at a dinner in the late spring.
2021 Winners
Elementary: Ms. Cristina Bedgood, M.Ed., Hollywood Park Elementary
Cristina Bedgood, M.Ed. is an instructional coach and educator with more than 13 years of experience in Broward County. Her passion to inspire the implementation of innovative instructional practices and cultivate curiosity for equitable pedagogy continues to motivate her growing hunger to empower educational reform. Her life-long mission can be best described by the statement “The future belongs to the curious. To the ones who are not afraid to try it, explore it, question it, poke it, and turn it inside out” (- Unknown). Cristina was recognized as an Distinguished Graduate for Educational Leadership from American College of Education in 2020. She has spent her last 5 years at Hollywood Park Elementary wherein she has empowering the advancement of other educators and implemented school-wide programs that led to higher student achievement, greater equity, and stronger student-teacher relationships. Some of her recent accomplishments consist of:
- Steadily increased school-wide proficiency in Mathematics from 47% to 72% as supported by the school as supported by the Hollywood Park’s State assessment trend data from 2014 – 2019
- Continuously increased proficiency in ALL demographical areas school-wide over the last 5 years
- Built teacher capacity on equitable, standard-based instruction
- Recognized for facilitating district level PD that entices metacognitive thinking, challenging limits to promote positive-growth, and establishing purpose by helping professionals contextualize the possibilities that enhances their skills.
Secondary: Ms. Katrice Dixon, Crystal Lake Middle School
Katrice Dixon, a product, producer and parent of Broward County Public Schools currently assigned to Crystal Lake Middle School of Pompano Beach, FL. My mission is to provide students a transformative, rigorous highly engaging education experience. In my classroom students can expect to implement real world problems through project based learning along with musical integration and cross subject collaboration . I believe a high energy experience like this will change the stigma that surrounds math and produce learning gains and academic growth. “I use what matters to the students social media fads, popular music and dances and it just works. I focus on relationships before standards and once you’ve built the trust the lengths your students will go to reach success simply can not be measured.”
2019 Winners
Elementary: Ms. Burton, Deerfield Park Elementary School
Secondary: Ms. Keating, Westpine Middle School
