Jay Senter
Jay Senter
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SM East journalism teacher named finalist for Kansas Teacher of the Year

Tate with the plaque commemorating his nomination for 2011 Kansas Teacher of the Year.

Dow Tate, the Shawnee Mission East journalism teacher who earlier this year received a Gold Key from the Columbia University Scholastic Press Association, has been named a Region 3 finalist for the 2011 Kansas Teacher of the Year award. The other finalist from Region 3 is Karen Tritt, who won the Kansas Teacher of the Year award in 2010 as a foreign language teacher at Shawnee Mission West.

Tate and Tritt will join the finalists from the other three regions in the state at a ceremony in Wichita on November 20 where the winner will be announced.

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About the author

Jay Senter
Jay Senter

Jay Senter is the founder and publisher of the Johnson County Post.

He earned his bachelor’s degree in business at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, where he worked as a reporter and editor at The Badger Herald.

He went on to receive a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Kansas. While he was in graduate school, he also worked as a reporter for the Lawrence Journal-World.

His reporting has appeared in the Kansas City Star, The Pitch and The New York Times, among other publications.

Senter was the recipient of the Johnson County Community College Headliner Award in 2023.

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