Education

Juneau teacher Amy Jo Meiners has been named 2016 Alaska Teacher of the Year. Meiners works with gifted and talented students as an extended learning teacher at Auke Bay and Riverbend elementary schools.

Festivities at the new Mendenhall Valley Public Library at Dimond Park will run from 11:30 a.m. until 3 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 7.

The Smithsonian is using 3D printing and scanning technology to preserve and repatriate Hoonah Indian Association items.

Excavators have torn through the building, ripping the structure in two, to isolate the fire to one wing of the school and save the library housing Yup’ik artifacts from incinerating.

“After 21 years of teaching in grades 1-6 I have no answers as to why this is a problem now,” Ann Marie Corgill wrote, refusing to pay fees and take tests for another state certification.

Harborview Elementary School had an all-school Halloween dance performance on Friday.

“I think our relationship with this administration is a lot more solid,” said Juneau Education Association President Dirk Miller.

Anthropologist Barbara J. King explores a new storybook that aims to teach 3- to 7-year-olds about their “grandmother fish” as a way into the concept of evolution.

“We must take care of our children and we must make that a moral and cultural imperative,” said Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott.

One superintendent says seeking efficiencies like this is recognition of a grim financial reality for Alaska schools — things aren’t going to get better anytime soon.