Abstract:
Laura Bilbro-Berry is a second-grade teacher at John C. Tayloe Elementary in Washington, and North Carolina’s 2000 Teacher of the Year. Bilbro-Berry has also received three Bright Ideas grants from Tideland Electric Membership Corporation. The grants helped to support Bilbro-Berry’s projects, which aimed to relate mathematics to everyday life, teach students about responsibility, and create an aquarium-based ecosphere.