Adele Berardi, English Support Teacher, Southern Regional High School, Manahawkin  I am an English Support Teacher in an English course, which means there are…

Melissa Brady Petrillo, Special Education Teacher at Nutley High School, Grades 9-12. I grew up in West Orange, New Jersey, which I think is…

Sean McDonald, Belmar Elementary School, Seventh and Eighth Grade Social Studies and  Teacher of the Year Recipient December, 2020 I got my BA at…

Joe Blondo, South Plainfield Middle School, Eighth Grade, United States History Absolutely, by no means are we perfect but this is bar none the…

Darnell Williams, Stafford Intermediate School, ELA and Social Studies, 6th Grade I’m not just a teacher, but I also am the head coach of…

Jill Alexander, Art Teacher, Wall High School I got my Masters of Creative Arts at the School for Visual Arts in New York City.…

Dr. Alyce Anderson, Director of Curriculum and Instruction for Brick Township Public School District I grew up in Brick Township. My story is that…

Nicole Burak, Language and Learning Delayed Teacher at Cedar Grove Elementary School, was voted Teacher of the Year in Toms River, 2021 Interviewer’s Note:…

Gregory Andrus, photojournalist and interviewer, here looks back at a year of interviewing almost two dozen teachers on the front lines of the pandemic…

Rick Carr, Lecturer, Ocean County College What motivated me to go to college was waking up in a room with people who had partied…