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Steven Baugh to give BYU devotional address May 4

Steven Baugh, a faculty member in the David O. McKay School of Education, will be the speaker at Brigham Young University’s devotional Tuesday, May 4, at 11:05 a.m. in the de Jong Concert Hall, Harris Fine Arts Center.

The devotional will be broadcast live on the BYU Broadcasting channels and online at byub.org. Rebroadcast and archive information will be available at byub.org/devotionals or speeches.byu.edu.

Baugh is the director of the Center for Improvement for Teacher Education and Schooling at BYU. He has been at the university since 2000. Before coming to BYU, he was the superintendent of the Alpine School District for 12 years. He has also been the principal at American Fork High School and Pleasant Grove Junior High School and was a teacher at Orem High School.

He is a member of the Utah Educator Hall of Fame and was the 2009 Honored Alumnus for BYU’s College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences. Baugh received his bachelor’s degree in mathematics, his master’s degree in educational administration and his doctorate in public schools administration from BYU.

Writer: Brandon Garrett

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Photo by Kenny Crookston/BYU Photo

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