Monday, June 17, 2019
Each year, Wisconsin selects four Teachers of the Year to represent elementary schools, middle schools, high schools, and special services. Recently, State Superintendent Carolyn Stanford Taylor made surprise visits to four different schools in the state to announce the 2020 Teachers of the Year. Those four teachers are:
- Elementary School Teacher of the Year: Chelsea Miller, of Jefferson, an art teacher at Sullivan and West elementary schools in the Jefferson School District
- Middle School Teacher of the Year: Erin McCarthy of Milwaukee, an eighth-grade social studies teacher at Greendale Middle School
- High School Teacher of the Year: Chad Sperzel-Wuchterl of Milwaukee, an art teacher at Reagan High School in Milwaukee Public Schools
- Special Services Teacher of the Year: Bawaajigekwe Andrea DeBungie of Washburn, a special education teacher at Ashland Middle and Lake Superior Elementary schools in the Ashland School District
Watch the new video that captures all four of the surprise visits, conducted in front of each teacher’s students, family, and staff.
Each teacher of the year receives $3,000 from the Herb Kohl Educational Foundation.
Through an interview process, one of the four teachers will be selected to represent Wisconsin in the Council of Chief State School Officers National Teacher of the Year program.
For more information about the selection process for the Teacher of the Year Program, visit the Herb Kohl Educational Foundation web page on the DPI website.