Time-Warner to honor teachers
Published 12:00 am Wednesday, March 14, 2001
LAPLACE – Time Warner Cable is seeking entries for its 2000-2001 National Teacher Awards competition, and Time Warner Cable of LaPlace is distributing entry froms to encourage St. John the Baptist Parish teachers to participate. The program, now in its 12th year, recognizes classroom projects that use cable television as a resource for enhancing the classroom learning experience. Twenty teachers or teacher teams will be chosen from entries submitted from areas served by Time Warner Cable divisions across the country. Five of those awards specifically will recognize projects incorporating Road Runner, Time Warner Cable’s high-speed Internet service. Winners receive a $1,000 cash prize and a Crystal Apple sculpture, as well as a trip to Wash., D.C. for a gala awards celebration. “This gives us a great opportunity to acknowledge some of the creative activity that is going on in our schools and to underscore our support of quality education in our community,” said Time Warner Cable general manager, Jacqui Dugas. The company has already provided a cable drop and basic cable service free to 13 of St. John the Baptist Parish schools. Connected schools receive more than 540 hours of commercial-free educational programming each month at no charge through Time Warner Cable’s support for Cable in the Classroom. To be eligible to enter projects for consideration in the National Teacher Awards, teachers must be in a state accredited public or private school (K-12) located within a Time Warner Cable service area. Classroom projects should have taken place between Sept. 1, 2000 and April 20, 2001. For more information or to receive an entry form contact Jacqui Dugas at 504-562-6951. Time Warner Cable-LaPlace is a division of Time Warner Cable, the nation’s second-largest cable television operator. Time Warner Cable owns and manages the world’s most advanced, best clustered cable television operations, with 90 percent of its 12.6 million customers in systems of 100,000 subscribers or more. It is a division of Time Warner Entertainment.