Pottsgrove MS Teacher Eaton A ‘Fuel Up’ Finalist

Posted on 17 March 2011. Tags: , , , ,

POTTSTOWN PA – The phys-ed pride of Pottsgrove Middle School, teacher Marilyn Eaton, has been selected as one of several finalists in the National Football League‘s “Physical Education Teacher of the Year” competition, Pottsgrove School District spokeswoman Beth Trapani reported late Wednesday afternoon (March 16, 2011).

Teacher Marilyn Eaton

Eaton has already won state and local honors as an architect of the two-year “Fuel Up To Play 60″ efforts at the school, North Hanover Street, Pottstown PA, to keep students healthy, fit, and exercising at least 60 minutes every day. Now she will vie with a handful of other similarly honored teachers from across the country to be recognized with the national award. The Fuel Up program is sponsored by the NFL and the National Dairy Council.

If named as the league’s top teacher, Eaton would win a $10,000 stipend, a $10,000 companion grant for the school’s physical education program, an expenses-paid trip to the NFL Draft scheduled for April 28-30 at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, and be asked to serve as an NFL Network spokesperson during 2011.

The NFL says it will announce its winner next month. Until then, according to Trapani, Eaton and the other contenders face “an extensive interview and application process.”

Pottsgrove students and faculty members have reveled in, and also benefited from, Eaton’s success and the attention given to their Fuel Up efforts. The middle school was recognized as having one of the best such programs in Pennsylvania, and won a day-long visit to the school during February by Philadelphia Eagles tight end Brent Celek.

Eaton also won an expenses-paid trip to the NFL Pro Bowl in Hawaii.

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    March 21, 2011 at 6:41 am

    [...] Pottsgrove MS Teacher Eaton A ‘Fuel Up’ Finalist Pottsgrove Middle School physical education teacher Marilyn Eaton, who has led efforts to involve more students in daily exercise, is in the running to be named “Teacher of the Year” by the NFL. [...]


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