A ninth-grade social research instructor at Casco Bay Excessive Faculty in Portland is one in every of 4 finalists for 2023 Maine instructor of the 12 months.
Matt Bernstein joins academics from Aroostook, Oxford and Penobscot counties as finalists for the honour. The Maine instructor of the 12 months will likely be named in October and can function an advocate for educating, Maine faculties and college students, and characterize the state within the Nationwide Trainer of the 12 months program.
Matthew Bernstein Picture courtesy of Maine Division of Schooling
Bernstein mentioned he’s “humbled and grateful for this recognition” and the chance to work as a instructor.
He has a bachelor’s diploma in historical past, with a focus on European historical past, from Bowdoin Faculty and is 2022’s Cumberland County Trainer of the 12 months. He’s a member of the Portland Public Colleges Social Research Vertical Content material Group, which is working to develop a Wabanaki Research curriculum, and was lately named a 2022 Nationwide Endowment for the Humanities Summer season Scholar, collaborating in a seminar referred to as “Educating the Holocaust via Visible Tradition.” Outdoors the classroom, he performs or coaches soccer and basketball.
The opposite finalists are Heather Anderson of Caribou Group Faculty in Caribou, the 2022 Aroostook County instructor of the 12 months; Ashley Bryant of Sacopee Valley Center Faculty in Hiram, the 2022 Oxford County instructor of the 12 months; and Emily Albee of Hampden Academy in Hampden, the 2022 Penobscot County instructor of the 12 months.
“I couldn’t be prouder of those 4 Trainer of the 12 months state finalists for representing the very best qualities of Maine’s superb educators,” Maine Schooling Commissioner Pender Makin mentioned. “They exude optimism for public schooling, a dedication to their occupation and to constructing relationships throughout their communities and the vitality and drive to make schooling fantastic for all their college students and for all college students in Maine.”
The candidates for instructor of the 12 months had been nominated by a member of their neighborhood after which chosen by a panel of academics, principals and members of the enterprise neighborhood
« Earlier
Subsequent »
Associated Tales
Invalid username/password.
Please test your e mail to substantiate and full your registration.
Use the shape under to reset your password. Whenever you’ve submitted your account e mail, we’ll ship an e mail with a reset code.