A Carroll High School special education teacher was surprised with a $2,000 H-E-B award, supporting her classroom and sensory hallway for students with autism.<\/p>\n
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 \u00a0A special education teacher at Carroll High School received a surprise recognition Monday for her work with students who have severe autism.<\/p>\n
Deanna Evans, who teaches in the school\u2019s self-contained unit, was awarded $2,000 as part of the H-E-B Excellence in Education Awards. The prize includes $1,000 for Evans and $1,000 for her classroom.<\/p>\n
Evans said the recognition came as a surprise and will directly benefit her students.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is amazing because I recently got a grant. We are working on a sensory hallway,\u201d Evans said. \u201cIt is very expensive to get stuff for our children, so that thousand dollars is going to help us afford even more things for the hallway.\u201d<\/p>\n
The sensory hallway project is designed to support students with autism by providing a space tailored to their needs, helping with focus and sensory regulation.<\/p>\n
As part of the award, Evans now advances to compete at the state level, where she could receive an additional $5,000 for herself and her classroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Carroll High School special education teacher was surprised with a $2,000 H-E-B award, supporting her classroom and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-229150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}