Yesterday we had bad news from our local schools. Sad to say, we hear that a lot.
Today, we have some good news, as a local high school teacher was honored as a secondary educator of the year.
RACINE – For the second year in a row, a Lutheran High School teacher has been selected as teacher of the year out of educators at Lutheran high schools in the southern half of Wisconsin.
Nick Gasau, a social studies teacher at Lutheran, was chosen as secondary teacher of the year by the South Wisconsin District of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, a group of Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod congregations, ministries, pastors, teachers and other professionals in the southern half of Wisconsin. The group includes six Lutheran high schools in the lower half of the state, said Robin Mueller, administrative assistant in the South Wisconsin District of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod’s department of schools, youth and family.
From those high schools, teachers were nominated by parents, colleagues or administrators, and those nominations were reviewed by a selection committee, which deemed Gasau the winner.
We’ve blogged over and over ad nauseum about the problems in our schools, bad teachers, underachieving students. It’s nice to hear some good things our schools are doing and accomplishments our teachers are receiving for their work in the classroom.
Congratulations to Nick Gasau on this honor.
