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RatesBrandon Valley Teacher Wins $500
Allison Rasmussen, an Early Childhood Preschool teacher at Brandon Elementary, was nominated because she goes above and beyond. She makes an extra effort to help her students learn. Secondly, she has joined American Sign Language classes outside of school time to better understand her students' needs. Read more about all our winners at: levo.org/education-blog/levo-recognizes-8-amazing-area-teachers-2025
Transcript:
(0:01) Each year, Levo chooses some amazing teachers to give $500 classroom awards to. (0:08) They're nominated by community members, parents, and students. (0:11) And we have one of our winning teachers for this year, Mrs. Allison Rasmussen from Brandon Elementary.
(0:17) She was nominated by Alex. Alex, can you tell us why you nominated her? (0:20) Yes, since the first day that we came and met her here, she's gone above and beyond for SAM. (0:26) She even attends weekly ASL group meetings with some moms in the Brandon School District outside of her classroom time (0:35) to learn sign language to help communicate with SAM while he's in the classroom.
(0:41) And so, I know not a lot of teachers go outside their classrooms to do all that extra stuff, (0:46) and we've just been grateful to have her this year. (0:50) That is fantastic. And can you tell us, have you decided in the last five minutes what you're going to do with the $500? (0:55) I haven't decided, but I'm super excited.
Thank you so much. (1:00) Shh, shh, shh. (1:01) Thank you.
