WCNY Recognizes Mission US National Educator Of The Year
Published - February 16, 2012
Marc Cizenski, a seventh- and eighth-grade U.S. history teacher at the Onondaga/Cortland/Madison BOCES’ Career Training Center in Liverpool, has been named theMission US National Educator of the Year. Cizenski, of Syracuse, was selected by New York City public television station THIRTEEN for his outstanding use of Mission US, an innovative multimedia classroom resource produced by THIRTEEN in association with WNET. Mission US is a series of free role-paying games that give middle school students a first-person perspective on American history. “There’s a pressing need to engage middle school students in American history in more effective ways, and Mission US addresses that need,’’ said Robert J. Daino,
