Educators Tiffany Livingstone, Rachel Zeller, To Be Honored

An educator from Pikesville and one from Woodlawn are among those who will be honored for their work with gifted and talented education.

Tiffany Livingstone is principal of Featherbed Lane Elementary School in Woodlawn.

Rachel Zeller, of in Pikesville, is a teacher and gifted and talented facilitator, according to a news release from Baltimore County Public Schools.

The Maryland State Advisory Council will honor them, as well as four others from the BCPS system, for their contributions to gifted and talented education.

They will receive awards during the council's annual "Celebrating Gifted and Talented Education" reception, set for 5-8 p.m. Feb. 29 at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory Kossiakoff Center in Laurel.

Their awards are:

• Livingstone—Outstanding Educator in Gifted and Talented Education—School or School System Administrator.
• Zeller—Outstanding Educator, Program Coordinator.

The other recipients, and their awards are:

• Jane Vanko—Outstanding Educator, Teacher as Leader. She's a resource teacher for Early Childhood, Language Arts, PreK-12.
• Frank Fitzgibbon—Outstanding Educator, Teacher as Leader. He is a biology teacher at Patapsco High School.
• Sharon Sacra—Outstanding Educator in Gifted and Talented Education—School or School System Administrator. She is assistant principal at Perry Hall Middle School.
• Jessica Paffenbarger—Business, Community, or Parent Leader that Supports Gifted and Talented Education. She is chairwoman for BCPS' Citizens' Advisory Committee.