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…
Ebone Thrower, Kindergarten, Midtown Community School, Neptune, NJ “Out of 19 kids in my class, 16 of them speak Spanish, and for their parents…
Steven Ricci, Colts Neck Cedar Drive Middle School, Grades 6 – 8 Health and Phys. Ed. I was told growing up that teachers do…
Brittany Bower, Learning Disabilities Teacher Consultant, East Amwell “There is great disparity between the achievements of kids who grow up in low income areas…
Tim Brennan Brick Memorial High School Health and Physical Education I started a class called Hooked on Fishing, Not on Drugs. We self-funded the…
Rachel Mambach, Red Bank Primary School Pre-K – 3rd Grade Art I don’t remember ever not loving art. My dad is an amazing painter,…
Heather Staples, Manchester High School English, Tomorrow’s Teachers When my sister and I were very young, our mom worked at a convenience store down…
Renee Hollingsworth, Robert C. Wood Early Development Center, Little Egg Harbor I am a preschool teacher for four years, a firefighter for six years,…