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Newton Art Teacher Making A Name For Herself Through Career

The award recipient is an art teacher for a private school.

Erin Bisceliga has been a teacher at Clearway School for nearly a decade.
Erin Bisceliga has been a teacher at Clearway School for nearly a decade. (Massachusetts Association of Approved Private Schools)

NEWTON, MA — A Newton educator has been recognized for the impact she has made in her profession.

Clearway School art teacher Erin Bisceliga was presented the Excellence in Teaching Award by the Massachusetts Association of Approved Private Schools earlier this month during its spring awards ceremony.

In her nine-year career at Clearway, Bisceliga has worked on garden bed, mural, and digital art projects with special needs students. She has also been trained in the Orton Gillingham approach, a curriculum on how to teach writing, reading, and spelling to students with dyslexia.

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MAAPS is a nonprofit organization that represents more than 80 private schools throughout New England.

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