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2008-2009 Sacramento City Unified School District Teachers of the Year
Teacher finds niche in intensive intervention classes
In her senior year of high school, Tiffany Wilson鈥檚 parents were in a terrible auto accident that required them to be hospitalized for most of that school year. On her birthday, with her parents in the hospital, Wilson鈥檚 English teacher, Mary Ann Paul, baked her a carrot cake.
It was just a carrot cake, but the simple act of kindness turned Tiffany Wilson away from her childhood aspirations to be a scientist and toward her current career as an educator.
2006-2007 Sacramento City Unified School District Teachers of the Year
麻豆果冻传媒 Clayton Dagler:
In ninth grade, Clayton Dagler鈥檚 math teacher told him that he
shouldn鈥檛 aspire to higher level math classes. Maybe the teacher
was trying to do Dagler a favor. After all, the teenager did
suffer from dyslexia and had a hard time in the class.
Instead, that demeaning comment had the opposite effect, giving Dagler the motivation to prove his teacher wrong. Instead of quitting math, Dagler continued to take higher level classes, eventually graduating from UC Davis with a mathematics degree.
2004-2005 Sacramento County Teacher of the Year Carol Cleland
Although Cleland currently teaches a 3rd grade GATE class, she鈥檚 taught every level from first through fifth. In the essay she submitted for the competition, Cleland stated, 鈥淚 love teaching elementary grades because I am able to re-discover all of my favorite subjects including math, science, reading, writing and history. This age group enables me to stay young at heart.鈥�
2004-2005 Sacramento County Teacher of the Year Asa Salley
Asa was also selected as Sacramento County Teacher of the Year.
Seven years ago, Asa Salley began his teaching career at John Bidwell. He is currently pursuing a Master鈥檚 Degree in Multicultural Education. Salley continues to share his knowledge with other educators by presenting at conferences, and was a guest lecturer at UC Davis on 鈥渃losing the achievement gap.鈥� 鈥淚 try to take advantage of any opportunity to improve my teaching so I can give my students the very best of myself,鈥� he said.
2005-2006 Sacramento City Unified School District Teachers of the Year
The next National Teacher of the Year could very well be one of the two outstanding teachers selected this year to represent Sac City in the first phase of the Teacher of the Year competition.
Jennifer Hughes, an instructor for eight years, teaches a split first/second grade class at John Bidwell Elementary School.
With ten years in the classroom, Michael Holt teaches eighth grade at California Middle.