Olathe East High School Teacher is Announced State's Teacher of the Year

Olathe East High School Teacher is Announced State's Teacher of the Year

When Tiffany Richard was in college, she started out as a pre-med student. Everyone encouraged her with her straight-A's to become a doctor. But something changed in her junior year.

“I finally realized what I truly loved was being with students,” she said. “Being a doctor, lawyer or engineer is wonderful, but teaching is also a wonderful career.”

Richard tries to instill that same dedication to learning in her students, and the state has taken notice. Kansas Commissioner of Education Diane DeBacker announced Richard, of Olathe East School, as the state’s teacher of the year on Nov. 19.

Richard, a science and college-prep teacher, has been an educator for about 17 years and has been at Olathe East for about eight. This year she is teaching chemistry and AVID — Advancement Via Individual Determination — classes. She’s also taught biology.

Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2011/12/02/3296628/olathe-east-educator-is-teacher.html#ixzz1fmOnHbEn


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