STEM teacher Evie LaFollette of Tennessee has garnered a 2023 Robert E. Yager Exemplary Teaching Award from the National Science Teaching Association. Photo credit: Kingsport City Schools
Congratulations go to Evie LaFollette, a STEM teacher at Dobyns-Bennett High School in Kingsport, Tennessee. She has garnered a 2023 Robert E. Yager Exemplary Teaching Award from the National Science Teaching Association.
The Robert E. Yager Exemplary Teaching Award annually recognizes six science teachers who successfully use innovation and excellence in their classroom. The recipients of the award receive $1,000 towards their expenses to attend the annual NSTA National Conference on Science Education, and an additional $1,000 for their personal use. Each of the six teachers selected were invited to present at the conference, attend the district director meet-and-greet, and participate in their NSTA District Director Leadership retreat.
Evie has been an educator for fourteen years, seven of them at Dobyns-Bennett High, where she teaches Biology courses. She is obviously dedicated to her students and to her work. “It is my goal that each of my students feel seen, accepted, and supported in my classroom,” Evie declares. “I try to inspire my students to approach science like an engineer, always looking for solutions and being creative in their problem solving approach,” she says.
For the past ten years, Evie has also instructed online Psychology and Advanced Placement Psychology courses for the Niswonger Foundation. She also teaches Synthetic Biology at East Tennessee State University in a program which provides college credit to gifted and talented high school students throughout the state. And as if all that were not enough, she leads teacher workshops to train high school teachers all over Tennessee in how to implement Synthetic Biology and Genetic Engineering. Furthermore, in April, 2022, she was a presenter of “Life Changing Science Education” at the international science conference SynBioBeta held in Oakland, CA.
Evie earned her Bachelor’s degree in Behavioral Neuroscience from East Tennessee State University in Johnson City. She earned her Master’s degree in Education from Milligan University in Elizabethton, Tennessee.
To learn more about the National Science Teachers Association, click on this link to the NSTA.
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