Nov 11, 2024 | TXTOY Perspective
by Taniece Thompson-Smith, 2024 Texas Teacher of the Year It was the end of the week. I rushed out of my classroom then stopped in my tracks when I remembered that I had left my lunch containers, untouched, in my mini fridge in the classroom. I guess I knew what I was...
Jul 15, 2024 | TXTOY Perspective
by Taniece Thompson-Smith, 2024 Texas Teacher of the Year “… I say to you, my young friends, doors are opening to you — doors of opportunities that were not open to your mothers and your fathers — and the great challenge facing you is to be ready to face these doors...
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...
