Montgomery Community Media

A Montgomery College professor has been named Maryland Professor of the Year. MCTV’s Fritzi Bodheimer reports. Visit our PEG partner MCTV10 (Montgomery College Television program schedule) to see more Montgomery College Television.

Montgomery County Public Schools fifth graders recently experienced the blues at a jazz concert at the Music Center at Strathmore. MCPS-TV reports. Visit our PEG partner MCPS TV to view more of its local programming.

A private school teacher was charged with two counts of sexual abuse of a minor and two counts of fourth-degree sexual offense, according to Montgomery County Police. Justin Andrew Gordon, 40, of Poolesville, was arrested on July 16. Detectives were investigating reports from two students of inappropriate sexual contact between Gordon and them that occurred […]

Teachers often go beyond the call of duty to help their students, but at least in this one case the actions of the coordinator for Longview School actually helped to save one of her students’ lives. Michelle M. Mach, coordinator of the Longview School, was awarded the Superintendent’s Above and Beyond the Call of Duty award […]

He has played all over the country. He has shared the stage with Jazz legends such as George Duke, Eric Benét, Chuck Brown and more. Elijah Balbed, a former MCPS student, celebrated the release of his new album Lessons From the Streets on May 4 at the MCM studios. Balbed is a composer and saxophonist- who grew […]

Monica Abuliak, world languages resource teacher and academic intervention coordinator at James Hubert Blake High School, is this year’s recipient of the Agnes Meyer Outstanding Teacher Award. The award is presented by The Washington Post and has been honoring teaching excellence the past three decades. According to a press release, Abuliak began her career as a Spanish […]

Montgomery Police are investigating the allegations of sexual offenses involving a former aikido karate teacher and several of his former students and are concerned there may be more victims. Police arrested Jorge Raul Allica, also known as George Paul Allica, 56, of the 3700 block of 13th Street NE in Washington D.C., on Jan. 29 […]

Sarah Manchester, a Takoma Park Middle School math teacher, recently won one million dollars on the game show, Wheel of Fortune. You can watch her win and check out her reaction, and her family’s reaction, below: For more on this story, see The Washington Post’s report. OMG!! Takoma Park MS teacher Sarah Manchester just won […]

Cristina Ulrich, the 2013-2014 Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) Teacher of the Year, has been named one of three finalists for 2014 Maryland Teacher of the Year. Ulrich, a kindergarten teacher at Brookhaven Elementary School, got the news on Tuesday when MCPS Superintendent Joshua P. Starr dropped by her classroom unannounced. “Congratulations to Cristina Ulrich […]