Rooted in Danbury, Inspiring Statewide: Brian Betesh Named Connecticut’s 2026 Teacher of the Year
Learn about the Rogers Park Middle School social studies teacher named 2026 State Teacher of the Year.
Social Studies Teacher Earns State’s Top Honor
Cheered on by students and colleagues, 18-year veteran New Haven educator Julia Miller was named Connecticut’s 2025 Teacher of the Year.
New London Educator Takes Home State’s Top Teaching Honor
Fourth grade teacher Kiana Foster-Mauro says she was hit with an overwhelming wave of emotion on learning she’d been selected as 2024 Connecticut Teacher of the Year. “It’s very humbling, it’s a huge honor, and I feel an enormous sense of gratitude.”
Teachers Honored for Commitment to Excellence, and to Children
For 2019 Connecticut Teacher of the Year (TOY) Sheena Graham, making personal connections with the young people in her classroom is all in a day’s work—and one of the things…
Meet Connecticut’s New 2019 Teacher of the Year: Bridgeport Music Teacher Sheena Graham
CEA member Sheena Graham, a performing arts and choir teacher at Bridgeport’s Harding High School, has been named Connecticut’s 2019 Teacher of the Year. Along with her colleagues and students…
Teachers of the Year Inspire Lifelong Learning
Connecticut’s 2015 Teacher of the Year praised and thanked her former teachers, Farmington Public School educators, for inspiring her to become an educator, and reminded her colleagues of the…
Teachers of the Year Support Students and Their Colleagues
Speaking to a crowd of more than 500, including fellow educators, family, and friends gathered at the Connecticut Teacher of the Year Celebration at the Bushnell Theater in Hartford tonight,…
Connecticut Teachers Talk Education with Members of the State’s Congressional Delegation while Attending a STEM Conference in Washington
Stratford physics teacher Kristen Record and Guilford physics teacher Ernie Smoker were part of a group of 20 STEM teachers from around the country participating in the STEM Policy Institute…
Perspectives on Connecticut’s Achievement Gap: Stratford Teacher Gives Students Tools to Face Life’s Challenges
“I live the achievement gap. It’s my reality, every day.” That’s what Kristen Record, Connecticut’s 2011 Teacher of the Year, told a crowd of 100 people at the Hartford Public…
2013 Teacher of the Year Says Teaching Is All About the Connection
Passionate. That’s the word fellow teachers use to describe Blaise Messinger, a fifth-grade teacher at Cromwell’s Woodside Intermediate School and Connecticut’s 2013 Teacher of the Year. Educators, family, friends, and…