Dowding receives national science teaching award

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A Dawes County native and graduate of ºÚÁÏ´óÊÂ¼Ç State College, Sharla Dowding, is one of six educators nationally to be awarded the Robert E. Yager Foundation Excellence in Teaching Award for 2015-16.

The award was given by the National Science Teachers Association, the largest professional organization in the world promoting excellence and innovation in science teaching and learning. 

Dowding grew up on a ranch in the Marsland area, where her parents, Buzz and Rosalene Tollman, reside. She is a graduate of Crawford High School and earned both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in science education from ºÚÁÏ´óÊÂ¼Ç State.

-Con Marshall

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