For 2019 Connecticut Teacher of the Year Sheena Graham, making personal connections with the young people in her classroom is all in a day’s work—and one of the things that has endeared her to generations of students.
Those meaningful, enduring connections are among the common threads that bind this year’s Teacher of the Year finalists together.
While they all came to teaching in different ways, with unique points of inspiration, each shares a strong penchant for building positive relationships with students, showing children that they matter not only as learners but as human beings.
