Kim Burke Ables
Science Teacher, Benjamin Banneker Academic High School
Washington, DC- Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced a congressional resolution recognizing Kim Burke-Ables, a science teacher at Washington D.C. schools Benjamin Banneker Academic High School, on her selection as the District of Columbia Teacher of the Year for 2006, and congratulating her for her exceptional dedication to the students and her excellence as a teacher. Burke-Ables has been teaching at Banneker for three years and has received praise for developing creative ways to motivate her students to learn and understand biology, life sciences, human anatomy and physiology, and chemistry. She has contributed to making this Washington D.C. school competitive and relevant in student lives.
Student Turned Congresswoman Praises Washington D.C. Schools
Norton, who went to Banneker when it was a junior high school, said that she was pleased that, Bannekers excellence is attributed in no small part to the excellence of Kim Burke-Ables and others like her, although the school building looks as it did when I was a seventh grade kid and Banneker was a junior...