Page 4 THE VILLADOM TIMES I • May 5, 2010 FLOW Area District selects teachers for Governor’s Award by Frank J. McMahon The Ramapo Indian Hills Regional High School District has selected two teachers who will be recognized by the board of education next month as the representatives of their respective high schools in the 2010 Governor’s Teacher Recognition Program. Ivy Paige Urdang, who teaches world history and international law and human rights at Indian Hills High School, and John V. Gaccione, who teaches mathematics at Ramapo High School, will be honored at the May 24 board of education meeting scheduled for 8 p.m. at Ramapo High School. Both educators will receive a certificate and a $100 grant for educational materials of their choice for use either in their classroom or their school library. The two teachers will also be recognized at the May 27 Bergen County Teacher Reception. Urdang is married and has two grown children. She has a BA in political science from William Paterson University where she graduated summa cum laude. She received her juris doctor degree with honors from the Seton Hall University School of Law, and attended a post-baccalaureate program for teacher certification in social studies at William Paterson University. She also attended a graduate program for supervisor’s certification at Montclair State University. Urdang practiced law for many years in Bergen County. While still practicing, Urdang returned to school at night for teacher certification. She taught for two years at Teaneck High School from 1999 to 2001 and she has taught at Indian Hills High School for nine years since 2001. She started the Mock Trial Team at Indian Hills and she coached that school’s team, which won the Bergen County Championship in 2009. She has also worked with students for the Princeton Moot Court competition, which she also started at Indian Hills. That team has won the championship twice. She recently spent a week in the Ukraine with several other teachers and professors from Seton Hall University as part of the Deliberating in a Democracy program. “Changing careers was the best thing I ever did,” Urdang said, “I feel like I was meant to be a teacher and I am very fortunate that I am able to earn a living doing something that I love. Working with teenagers is both challenging and rewarding and I get to make a difference every day. Receiving this honor was a total surprise and really an honor and a reflection of the amazing things that we all do every day at Indian Hills.” Gaccione was born and raised in Lyndhurst and graduated from Lyndhurst High School in 1996. He then attended the Rutgers University College of Engineering in New Brunswick for two semesters as a mechanical engineering major and transferred in the fall of 1997 to Seton Hall University, where he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in secondary education and pure and applied mathematics in 2000. 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