May 3, 2024 | TXTOY Perspective
by Naveen Cunha, 2024 Texas Secondary Teacher of the Year The tradition of giving an apple to a teacher started in the 1700s when poor families gave teachers baskets of fruit and vegetables from their farms. Since then, it has become a symbol of our profession. What...
Mar 5, 2024 | TXTOY Perspective
by Taniece Thompson-Smith, 2024 Texas Teacher of the Year “Now this is what I want to do with my life!” was the sentence that reverberated throughout the classroom, as students loquaciously exchanged ideas about sedimentary rocks and fossil fuels. Like a...
May 27, 2022 | Press Release, TASA News, TXTOY Perspective
2022 Texas Teacher of the Year Ramon Benavides and 2022 Texas Elementary Teacher of the Year Jennifer Han have recorded a video tribute in honor of Irma Garcia and Eva Mireles, the Uvalde CISD teachers whose lives were taken in their classrooms on May 24, 2022. View...
Oct 28, 2020 | TXTOY Perspective
by Michelle Sandoval Villegas, 2020 Texas Secondary Teacher of the Year Today is September 8, 2020, and I am sitting at my home desk with my fingers on the keyboard trying to find the right words to describe how I am feeling, how my students are feeling, their...
Aug 20, 2020 | TXTOY Perspective
by Karen Sams, 2020 Texas Teacher of the Year It seems like just yesterday and also years ago since I was last in my classroom with my students. I still remember the beginning of that week in March. With one week remaining until our spring break began, we jokingly...
May 4, 2020 | TXTOY Perspective
by Michelle Sandoval Villegas, 2020 Texas Secondary Teacher of the Year Chaos. Mass shootings. Pandemic. Fear. Anxiety. In the past school year, teachers have faced the hardest academic year in our city, and we share the same feelings with many educators all across...
