Project SUCCESS participant, Francis Camacho Vargas, has been nominated for the Bilingual/ESL Education Association of the Metroplex’s (BEAM) teacher of the year award. Ms. Camacho joined Project SUCCESS this academic year and received four days of professional development focused on helping sixth grade students transfer content from Spanish to English guiding them to make cross-linguistic connections.
Ms. Camacho teaches at Long Middle School. As Long’s first Two-Way Dual Language teacher, Ms. Camacho was instrumental in the expansion of the program in CFBISD. She endeavors to make her students feel loved and accepted. Camacho teaches her students to strive for excellence. She is committed to accelerating and challenging students to be bilingual, biliterate, and bicultural. BEAM’s Teacher of the Year will be announced during their 2019 Symposium on April 6, 2019 in Grand Prairie, Texas.