Kelsey Miller, a teacher for special-needs preschoolers in Plainfield Community Consolidated School District 202l, has won the 2017 Bonnie McBeth Early Learning Scholarship from the Plainfield Foundation for Excellence.
Miller teaches in Project LEAP at the Bonnie McBeth Early Learning Center. The program is designed for children in need of instruction that is more intensive, a District 202 release said. She also has volunteered at Camp SOAR (Special Outdoor Adaptive Recreation) for youth with special needs ranging from moderate to severe.
Miller has taught at the McBeth center for six years and will apply the $1,500 scholarship toward completing graduate-level work on instructing early learners with autism, the release said.
Kelsey Miller
“I love working with both young children and students with significant special needs,” Miller said in her application for the scholarship, according to the release. “That makes teaching 3- and 4-year-olds in a self-contained autism program the perfect fit for me.”
The scholarship is named after the district's first kindergarten teacher.
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