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We Meet Lee County 2018 Teacher of the Year Jeff Becker

WGCU | By Julie Glenn,

Published January 28, 2019 at 10:22 AM EST

Jeff Becker’s impact as the digital media technology teacher atIsland Coast High Schoolhas garnered him the2018 Lee County Teacher of the Year. His career started as a school guidance counselor, and then he became a teacher when he realized it was a position that would allow for a closer relationship with his students. In Becker’s first year teaching, his students won the Best High School News Show at theLee County Film FestivalAwards.

Becker joins us in the studio to discuss his teaching career, and what it means to him to be named ‘Teacher of the Year.’

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Julie Glenn

Julie Glenn is the host of Gulf Coast Live. She has been working in southwest Florida as a freelance writer since 2007, most recently as a regular columnist for the Naples Daily News. She began her broadcasting career in 1993 as a reporter/anchor/producer for a local CBS affiliate in Quincy, Illinois. After also working for the NBC affiliate, she decided to move to Parma, Italy where she earned her Master’s degree in communication from the University of Gastronomic Sciences. Her undergraduate degree in Mass Communication is from the University of Missouri at Kansas City.

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Mike Kiniry

Mike Kiniry is producer of Gulf Coast Live, and co-creator and host of the WGCU podcast Three Song Stories: Biography Through Music. He first joined the WGCU team in the summer of 2003 as an intern while studying Communication at Florida Gulf Coast University.

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