Five Shenandoah University education students received $5,000 Hattie M. Strong Foundation (HMSF) Scholarships in 2023-24, to help cover costs in their student-teaching semester:
Amy Hernandez ’24 (Bachelor of Music in Music Education), who was a student-teacher for secondary school band classes in Fairfax County, Virginia;
Connor Houser ’24 (Bachelor of Education, Middle Education, Concentration In Mathematics and History), who student-taught 8th grade math and civics/economics at Daniel Morgan Middle School in Winchester, Virginia;
Krystal Lozada Alomar ’24 (Bachelor of Education in Elementary Education), whose student-teaching has been in the elementary setting;
Bailey Sikorski ’23 (Bachelor of Education in Secondary Education – English), who student-taught honors and general 10th, 11th, and 12th grade classes in English, debate, and Teachers for Tomorrow; and
Austin Dettor ’24 (Bachelor of Music in Music Education) who was a student teacher at Lightridge High School and Willard Middle School in Loudoun County, Virginia.
This is the 12th year the HMSF has provided scholarships for Shenandoah students who are seeking initial teacher licensure and who demonstrate promise as future teachers.
HMSF is a charitable private foundation incorporated in the District of Columbia in 1928. The foundation’s activities consist of the administration of a scholarship program and a grant program. The scholarship program is aimed at college students enrolled in teacher-training programs at selected partnering institutions. The scholarship funds are intended to ease the financial pressure during the student-teaching semester, when a student’s ability to offset expenses with outside employment is curtailed by the rigor of full-time work in the classroom. Visit hattie.org/our-programs/scholarship-program to learn more.
