Meet IHSA's 2026 Teacher of the Year: Cameron Bower, Lead Teacher at YWCA Metropolitan Chicago Head Start in Aurora. Five years in, still showing up every day with her signature smile. This week's scoop: bit.ly/47xDDdZ

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Words of wisdom from our 2026 NCVPS Teacher of the Year, Chris Williams.

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The books Teacher Of The Year and Husband Of The Year by M.A.Wardell

Yay I have them both now

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North Carolina Virtual Public School Teacher of the Year Chris Williams recognized for his dedication in Biology, Earth & Environmental Science.

🏆 Congratulations to Chris Williams, our 2026 NCVPS Teacher of the Year!

With 26 years in education and 10 years at NCVPS, Chris brings passion, expertise, and student-centered learning to every class he teaches.

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Nebraska has amazing teachers and being able to recognize their excellence is one of the highlights of the year. Nominations for the 2027 Nebraska Teacher of the Year are now open. Nominate a teacher you believe is one of the best. www.education.ne.gov/press_release/ #teacheroftheyear

'Teacher of the Year' arrested for allegedly punching child in the forehead "Mrs. Wheeler consistently demonstrates a deep compassion for her students, earning the trust and respect of both students and families," the school's principal previously said.

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Man, the standards for #TeacherOfTheYear are not what they used to be.

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Teal background with white text reading: Carolina Academic Press wishes to honor our authors recognized as 2025 Teachers of the Year for their law schools

Tan background with teal text reading: 2025 Teachers of the Year: Scott R. Bauries university of south carolina, joseph f. rice school of law, Kristen M. Blankley university of nebraska college of law, Ann Ching arizona state university, sandra day o'connor college of law, Timothy Davis wake forest university school of law, T homas C. Galligan, Jr. louisiana state university, paul m. hebert law center, I. Richard Gershon university of mississippi school of law

Teal background with tan text reading: 2025 Teachers of the Year: Naomi Harlin Goodno pepperdine university, rick j. caruso school of law Ariana Levinson university of louisville, louis d. brandeis school of law Daniel S. Medwed northeastern university school of law Dylan O. Malagrinò charleston school of law Sally Brown Richardson tulane university law school Christopher J. Robinette southwestern law school

Tan background with teal text reading: 2025 Teachers of the Year: Florence Wagman Roisman indiana university, robert h. mckinney school of law Franklin D. Rosenblatt mississippi college school of law Gary J. Simson mercer university school of law Sandra Sperino university of missouri school of law Irwin Stotzky university of miami school of law Clifford Zimmerman northwestern university, pritzker school of law

Congratulations to the amazing CAP authors recognized as #TeacheroftheYear in 2025! #AALS2026

These professors are accomplished writers and great mentors for the next generation. We are so thrilled to have the opportunity to publish their works and honored to have them as part of the CAP family! 👏

Olivia Lam MAT ’15 has been named a Los Angeles Unified Teacher of the Year for her impact and dedication as a fifth grade teacher at Rosewood STEM Magnet.

Congrats, Olivia!

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#TodaysMomentOfAwesome the student newsletter awarded me "Teacher of the Year" by the popular vote of students. I shall treasure* this crown always.

*I have to treasure it as it is way too small to actually wear

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'Hometown hero!' A Kentucky elementary school teacher of the year designs 3D-printed hand for student 🧑‍🏫 #Sentry #SentryCustomSecurity #FeelGoodNews #Teacher #TeacherOfTheYear #Kentucky #3DPrintedHand #Student www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ0t...

🎉 Big congratulations to Michelle Roundy! 🎉

Michelle, a dedicated 10th and 12th-grade English Language Arts teacher at Jackson Hole High School in Teton 1, has been named the 2026 Wyoming Teacher of the Year! 🍎✨

Read more:https://bit.ly/4qxFeIx

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Greeley-Evans social studies teacher named 2026 Colorado Teacher of Year A social studies and AVID teacher at a Weld County school district has been named the 2026 Colorado Teacher of the Year.

👏 Congratulations to AVID teacher Stephen Paulson of Greeley Central HS—named 2026 Colorado #TeacheroftheYear!

His dedication reflects the impact AVID educators make every day: inspiring possibility & opening doors for ALL students. 💙 https://bit.ly/477rJaJ

We are thrilled to announce that Ms. Higgins is shortlisted for Teacher of the Year at the Educate Awards! 🎉

Let's wish her luck as the awards approach.🤞

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Congratulations to Claire Walter, MAT, CHADD’s 2025 Educator of the Year!
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Stephanie is a gorgeous African American woman with shoulder length straight hair and stylish glasses. She wears a white, black, and red floral patterned shirt and red lipstick. She sits in a classroom.

We’ve recently welcomed some new board members, and are proud to present Stephanie Allen as one of them. Welcome, Stephanie!

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Williamson High English teacher is the first Golden Apple winner of the new school year MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — The first Golden Apple Award of the new 2025-26 school year goes to Jacqueline Morris at Williamson High School in Mobile. Morris moved to Mobile after retiring as a senior non-commissioned officer from the US Army. She has been at Williamson for the past three years, teaching English and Language Arts, [...]

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Congratulations to Shawn Hornung of Wamego High School (Wamego, KS) on being named the 2025 Kansas @gliamericanhistory.bsky.social Teacher of the Year! Shawn will be awarded $1,000 and becomes a nominee in the national contest. #historymatters #gilderlehrman #teacheroftheyear

Avec les résultats du deuxième groupe du baccalauréat, je peux faire le malin et dire que pour la quatrième année consécutive, 100% des élèves que j'ai eus en terminale ont décroché le diplôme.
J'attends impatiemment mes palmes académiques.
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David Liu named Fellow Teacher of the Year at Stanford University More about the Fellow and Clinical Instructor!

And the Fellow #TeacheroftheYear goes to 🥁

Congratulations to David Liu for being honoured for 2024-2025 by ‪@stanford.edu​‬! The lecturer in #Otolaryngology at #MedUniVienna is currently a #clinicalfellow at the #university.

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Elementary Teacher and Doctoral Student Nikki Birkbeck Named Finalist for Pennsylvania Teacher of the Year | Penn State College of Education

Congrats to #PennState doctoral student & elementary teacher Nikki Birkbeck, a finalist for 2025 PA Teacher of the Year! Her work in STEAM education & community-centered teaching is shaping the future of K–12 learning. 👏🎓

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Congratulations to our Teachers & ESY of the Year who were recognized on June 3rd. We appreciate you and thank you for all you do every day.
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Pam Brittenburg-Andersen Named Humboldt County Teacher of the Year Alice Birney Elementary’s Pam Brittenburg-Andersen was honored for her transformative work with multilingual learners, recognized as the 2025-26 Humboldt County Teacher of the Year.

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It was a beautiful evening of celebrating Illinois Educators at ISBE’s Those Who Excel Teacher of the Year Banquet. I’m honored to emcee this event and be a part of elevating the incredible work happening in our schools. We laughed, we cried, and we sang. 🎶❤️🍎

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Q&A: Corey Rosser, a champion of alternative ed, is Michigan's Teacher of the Year Corey Rosser was on a business path in college when he took a summer job that brought him inside the world of juvenile justice. The experience, Rosser said, was an eye-opener and changed the trajectory of his life, leading him into the field of public education. More than two decades later, the Michigan public school teacher has changed the lives of hundreds of teens at Quest High School in North Branch Area Schools, an alternative high school for grades 10-12. Rosser was named the 2025-26 Michigan Teacher of the Year on May 6. Alternative education is a separate, non-traditional program within a K-12 public school district. It typically serves students who have specific needs and are at risk of not graduating. Quest, a small alternative high school of 40 students in Lapeer County, is a place where teens can develop one-on-one relationships with teachers who understand that young people sometimes need motivation and mentoring to make it through high school and across the stage for graduation. Rosser has worked at Quest High School since its inception in 2004. Its program, which includes other teachers, has produced 580 or more graduates during that time. Rosser, who is also a basketball and baseball coach in the district, also taught summer school courses and virtual learning instruction for both traditional and alternative high school students. The Detroit News spoke to Rosser about the challenges his students face, some misconceptions about alternative high schools and why he is staying in his profession. This conversation has been edited for length and clarity. Question: Tell me the story of how you became a teacher, and go back as far as you can. Answer: Sure, so my dad was a high school counselor and a classroom teacher and my mother-in-law was an elementary teacher, both in Marlette schools. Initially, after graduating high school, I decided to go into a business-related field. I went to Central Michigan University. I was fortunate enough, after my freshman year, I got offered an opportunity to work at a juvenile detention center called Teen Ranch in Kingston, Michigan, and so I did that for summer. It was really eye-opening. Q: When you say it was eye-opening, what do you mean? Can you give an example? A: It's just the backgrounds and upbringings of the kids were just so different than my upbringing. You saw the disadvantages, you saw the hurdles in their way. When I went into it, I really thought I was going to be working with a certain population of kids. And the more that I worked with them, the more I found that they're just kids. They want to be good, they want to be praised, they want to be successful. But their situations, there's so much stacked against them. It's almost impossible, it seems, for some of them. I felt I had a real gift for building relationships. I believe it was halfway through my sophomore year at CMU (Central Michigan University) that I decided to change my major to teaching. I felt like it was my calling. I felt like it was my gift. And you know, really, that's kind of the start of my teaching career. Q: And what is your teaching history? When did you have your first teaching job, and what district? A: So right out of college, I applied for, honestly, probably 90 jobs. Didn't even get an interview. I was fortunate enough that North Branch schools needed someone. They were starting a new alternative education school called Quest, which is where I'm at now. And so I was fortunate enough, because of my background and my work history, and with having a teaching degree, I was fortunate enough to get employed there. Q: Was your experience working in the juvenile facility part of that background? A: I think it absolutely was. Although I found honestly working with alternative ed students was not the same. You know, I think that people have in mind that it's the same. It's not the same. Q: Why is it not the same? A: Working with kids that are adjudicated, for one, it's a different level of authority over their daily life. Where kids are forced to be there, they understand that they've got to get daily performance points and behavioral points in order to go home. When you're in an alternative setting you're working with kids that aren't forced to be there. They don't have to do what you say. And what I find is that really building a respectful relationship, rather than asserting authority over them, was the key. I mean you treat young adults like young adults. You have conversations, you treat them with respect. You have mutual respect, mutual relationships, where it's not the same power dynamic. It's really more about building together, working together to help them achieve their goals, rather than 'you're going to do what I say.' It's just a lot different where you have kids that have that free will to make choices, and you've got to encourage them and get those things out of them, get them to meet their future. It really is that getting them to meet their future, because a lot of them don't know how to make that connection. But they're they're all capable. Q: Why don't some kids know how to make the connection? Have they missed something, or is it they haven't had an adult in their life explain it to them? A: Sometimes it depends on the role models they have in their life. Sometimes it's just seeing the validity and what they're doing each day. You know, like you and I, like we have a purpose, right? Like I come with a purpose every day. When you're a student and you're not motivated by grades or test scores, sometimes you don't see a purpose in what you're doing every day. I think it's getting them to see how what they're doing now connects to their future, or at very least opens those doors. I say to kids all the time: "I want you to do the things you want in the future, but I need you to do the things that you have to do, to have the opportunity to get to do the things you want. " I know that's a mouthful, and it's not on a poster, you know, it's really like there's things you're going to need to do. There's parts of your job that are going to be tougher, that you don't like, but those are necessary to get to the things that you love. Q: That's definitely not on a poster, but I understand. Can you tell me what alternative education means in your district? And what I mean by that is, how does a student end up there, or how does a student get into that program? A: A lot of students come if they're credit-deficient. With the Michigan Merit Curriculum, things are very tight. Things have to go as planned. And in a lot of kids' lives, four years for things to go as planned, it's tough. There's a lot of things that happen in their family. There's a lot of things that happen health-wise, as they are maturing that they're going through, both mentally and physically. And really, when those bumps happen, it throws them off that traditional path. And so our alternative ed, it's really, I mean, it's what it is. It's an alternative way to get to the same point. It's an alternative way to beat your future. Q: Are these kids done in four years or does it take more time? A: There's so much emphasis on your graduation rate. Some of the kids I'm most proud of are the kids that come back, you know, because it's not easy. It takes courage. When your classmates you grew up with in a small town are moving on and you've got to take care of a couple things before you can and so it takes a lot of courage to come back and finish (school) off. It's a lot easier to just be done and kind of fade in, and people forget that maybe you didn't have the success they had. It takes a lot of courage to do it. You know, if they're two years behind, and they're coming to us late, they're going to need that fifth year. A lot of times, our graduates are kids who've been extremely successful since day one or early on, they just needed extra time. They were just behind in the race. Q: What do you want readers to know about what kids are facing in your school? A: We've got students who have experienced homelessness, students who have lost parents tragically, students that are being raised by grandparents. We've got students that come from traditional families. I guess what I'd want people to know is that alternative students come from all backgrounds. Sometimes it's a family issue that's brought them to alternative (education), sometimes it's a social issue. Sometimes they've just moved around a lot. Sometimes, you know, there's just so many different factors that lead students to alternative ed that I think, really, we've got to remove the stigma of who it is. Q: How did the pandemic impact the kids you worked with, and what I mean by that is, did you lose some students completely or did you get more kids after the pandemic entering alt ed? A: Through the pandemic, we made a concerted effort to maintain relationships. We did a lot of Zoom meetings with students. We made YouTube videos that we sent out. We tried to keep connections with our students because of their socioeconomic status. For example, when restrictions are lifted and other people are deciding, 'oh, this is a great time to take a family vacation.' I literally had a student (on) the first day back, I said, 'What did you do?' The student said: 'I didn't do anything. I didn't leave my property, like, I barely came out of my house for five, six months, just because there was nowhere to go.' And, you know, socio-economically, they couldn't afford to do other things. ... And so we saw probably a 30 to 40% increase in our students. ... I think that the pandemic showed us that when you remove that live teacher, and you remove that relationship, that you're not going to have success. There's not going to be a thirst for learning. Q: My last question is, we know a lot of teachers who leave the profession. It's a hard profession. It can be extremely political, it can be extremely stressful. It does not pay a lot of money. So why do you stay? A: Yeah, man, that's such a deep question. It's like a surface-level question at the same time, right? I mean, I absolutely love my job. I've got amazing co-workers, I've got a supportive administration, I've got a community that's totally embraces alternative ed. We have so many connections in our community that give back and give opportunities for our kids. And so I think for me, the fact that it's a calling, really is what keeps me in the profession, to be honest with you. We have the supports in our district that allow us to be successful. Honestly I've been really blessed. I had a former administrator who just retired last year and my superintendent, Jim Fish, they've allowed me to grow as an educator. They've really given me the leeway to do what I believe. jchambers@detroitnews.com This article originally appeared on The Detroit News: Q&A: Corey Rosser, a champion of alternative ed, is Michigan's Teacher of the Year

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#TeacherOfTheYear This Teacher deserves every bit of kindness and thanks for the STELLAR job she's done and IS DOING!!! *CHEERS!* GOD BLESS! 2 of 2 Vids

#TeacherOfTheYear This Teacher deserves every bit of kindness and thanks for the STELLAR job she's done and IS DOING!!! *CHEERS!* GOD BLESS! 1 of 2 Vids