chec-mission-awards - Columbia Heights Educational Campus

Amylia Barnett Shinkle
Band and Music Teacher
Promotes pride poise and perseverance through her leadership, creativity  and development of the Music Program at CHEC, and building community support of the program through performances in the school and throughout the city. Builds professional learning community through flexibility in taking on assignments for multiple grade levels and needs. Prepares students to succeed in college by holding high expectations for all students, by relentless work with them during class, during lunch,  and after school, and by constantly reminding them of their goal of  being musicians and attending college.

Agnes Akwarandu
High School English Teacher
Builds professional learning community through sharing practices in the SLC,  and  English Department. Supports all school activities. Prepares students to succeed in college by a relentless focus on excellence in English, accepting no excuses, and requiring high level work.  She always focuses on making sure the seniors complete their work, and doing whatever it takes to move students to excellence.

Elizabeth Malcolm
High School English Teacher
Builds professional learning community through sharing practices in the  10 th Grade, the English Department and the SLC.  Provides leadership in DCCAS preparation and supports all initiatives of the English Department.  Prepares students to succeed in college through a relentless focus on excellence, tutoring students after school, and taking leadership in the Saturday Academy to prepare students for DCCAS. Shows pride, poise, and perseverance by being a constant learner.  Ms. Malcolm is an avid participant in professional development,  a  learner of strategies and approaches, and always tries to perfect her practice by applying what she learns.

Joseph Boykin
Counselor
Builds professional learning community through leadership in the  10 th  Grade Small Learning Community, and in the  Counseling Department,  and providing the advisory curriculum through the classroom.  Mr. Boykin’s relentless support and coordination of the DCCAS process was outstanding. Prepares students to succeed in college by relentlessly working with students and parents in developing student and family resilience.  Helps students develop positive habits that build physical and mental health and demonstrate perseverance, ethics and character in the pursuit of excellence, by providing individual and group counseling, bringing in outside resources to support students social emotional growth.