Local teacher earns Arch Coal Award
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EVANSTON — Uinta Meadows Elementary first grade teacher Laura Rigby has been awarded the Arch Coal Teacher Achievement Award. She is the first Evanston teacher to receive the award.
Arch Coal has been giving teacher achievement awards to 10 Wyoming teachers and 10 West Virginia teachers every year since 2001 and to five Utah teachers since 2007. Teachers are selected via a nomination process, although Arch Coal does not release who nominates teachers for the award. Students, peers and community members are eligible to nominate teachers for the award, which comes with $3,500 for the winning teacher’s use.
Logan Bonacorsi, director of corporate communications for Arch Coal, traveled from St. Louis on Wednesday, May 17, to present the award. UME Principal Jerrod Dastrup arranged the presentation as a surprise in Rigby’s classroom, inviting other teachers and assistant superintendents Doug Rigby and Joe Ingalls to join in the surprise. Laura Rigby, surrounded by her first grade class, was wreathed in smiles as she accepted the award. Her class then crowded around for a big group hug.
Arch Coal’s website describes the teacher award as “the longest-running privately sponsored teacher awards program in both Wyoming and West Virginia.”
