SOCIAL CIRCLE – A Toccoa teacher’s proposal to design and install a native pollinator garden earned her school a $1,000 grant from the Georgia Department of Natural Resources.
Jina Harris, a third-grade teacher at The Learning Tree Academy’s Outdoor Learning School, has received DNR’s 2023-24 Conservation Teacher of the Year grant. The annual award goes to a kindergarten through fifth-grade public or private school teacher in Georgia who demonstrates exceptional energy and innovation in teaching life sciences. Funding is provided by The Environmental Resources Network, or TERN, a friends group of the DNR Wildlife Conservation Section.
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