Burnsville Area Educators Honored As Exceptional Teachers

Beth Raebel and Colleen Coleman, both teachers in Burnsville-Eagan-Savage School District 191, have been named TIES 2016 Exceptional Teachers and will be honored during the TIES Education Technology Conference in December. They are among teachers selected for modeling best practices in using technology to engage students in learning, according to a news release.

School districts participating in the TIES Exceptional Teachers award program are members of TIES, an education technology consortium of 48 Minnesota school districts.

“Beth and Colleen have embedded technology in their classrooms to differentiate instruction, expand learning and prepare students to be future ready,” Superintendent Joe Gothard, who nominated the teachers for the award, said in a statement. “We thank them for their leadership in the instructional use of technology and congratulate them on this recognition.”

Technology has always been a second love of Raebel’s, according to school officials. If she hadn’t gone into teaching, she says she would have found a career in a technology field.

Coleman has dived deeply into technology at Burnsville High School. She was part of two pilot projects last year — one involved all students using Chromebooks in social studies classrooms and the other was using the school’s first-ever online learning management system. Both pilot projects have now expanded school-wide, so Coleman is a go-to tech leader. She studied and tested to become a Google Certified Educator and she’ll be part of an upcoming regional showcase event sponsored by Google and Best Buy at her school.

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