WOODLAND — Stephanie Marshall, a science teacher at Woodland High School, has received the Glenn and Jane Crosby Award for Excellence for the Northwest Region for 2023. The award recognizes her efforts as an extraordinary high school chemistry teacher, based on the quality of her teaching, her unusually effective teaching methods, and her dedication to the field of chemistry and chemical science.
Marshall was nominated after media coverage of her teaching style in 2021 caught the eye of Martha Dibblee, a member of the Portland chapter of the American Chemical Society.
“I think teachers who make chemistry boring are doing a disservice to students; some students might hate science, but they’ll love at least one of the activities we do in my classes,” Marshall said. “My goal is to find ways to get all students to enjoy being in my classroom so they can have that ‘light bulb moment’ and suddenly become engaged to understand more.”
Marshall has always enjoyed science and appreciates the challenges a subject like chemistry presents to students.
