08/26/2026
Barbara Hamilton teaches family consumer sciences, health, and senior transitions courses at Reardan High School and Reardan Middle School in the Reardan School District. She covers everything from textiles and nutrition to career and college prep, teaching students in grades seven through twelve.
Barbara was nominated for Teacher of the Month by a coworker. She had no idea she was nominated.
Her classroom needs are wide ranging. She teaches a food and nutrition course where students cook weekly, and her classroom freezer recently broke, causing her to lose all of her food supplies. She also runs a textiles course and advises the school’s FCCLA club, which travels to a national conference each year.
Barbara also spends her own money creating a calming space in her classroom, including a color wall, board games, and card games, so students have somewhere to decompress during the school day.
She’s using her $1,000 gift card toward classroom essentials, food and kitchen supplies, a replacement freezer, and textile tools that help her students, including those with special needs, participate more easily in class.
Congratulations to Barbara Hamilton, our Teacher of the Month.
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