{"id":297520,"date":"2019-04-15T06:00:54","date_gmt":"2019-04-14T20:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=297520"},"modified":"2019-04-15T06:00:54","modified_gmt":"2019-04-14T20:00:54","slug":"kes-beyer-is-2019-pss-librarian-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/kes-beyer-is-2019-pss-librarian-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"KES\u2019 Beyer is 2019 PSS Librarian of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_297521\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-297521\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Beyer-pix.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-297521\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Natalie Hill Beyer, left, shakes the hand of Education Commissioner Glenn Mu\u00f1a as she is announced as the Public School System 2019 Librarian of the Year. (Erwin Encinares)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Kagman Elementary School librarian Natalie Hill Beyer was named over the weekend as the 2019 Librarian of the Year of the Public School System.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement was made at the Kanoa Resort last Friday morning, completing PSS\u2019 roster of annual awards.<\/p>\n<p>Beyer bested four other nominees\u2014librarians from William S. Reyes Middle School, Kagman High School, Marianas High School, and the Tinian Jr. Sr. High School.<\/p>\n<p>Beyer\u2019s work at the KES library includes several projects such as the introduction of building materials for those interested in science, technology, engineering, and math.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an honor. I wouldn\u2019t be here without my amazing cohort,\u201d Beyer said in her acceptance speech. \u201cIt is such a relief to know that I have mentors in school. I gather my ideas from you and I am inspired by you, guys.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny achievement that I have in my school library is because I am working with great minds and I am able to be inspired by all of you,\u201d she added. <\/p>\n<p>Beyer won the same award last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a surprise that I won because there were a lot of very special things that my colleagues have been doing, so I think there are some other teachers that are very deserving of this,\u201d she said in a later interview. <\/p>\n<p>Beyer started her career with PSS at Hopwood Middle School as a social studies teacher and as a vice principal for curriculum and instruction before moving to Kagman. She was with Hopwood for almost nine years and with KES for almost four years.<\/p>\n<p>Beyer developed this year a \u201cmaker space\u201d in the library, where students go to create, build, and design.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the areas we have in the \u2018maker space\u2019 is the Lego zone,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>With that, students were able to come in and do STEM challenges, as well as participate in Lego clubs and project-based learning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt challenges them to be creative, think critically, and to work collaboratively with their classmates,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kagman Elementary School librarian Natalie Hill Beyer was named over the weekend as the 2019&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":297521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}