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COLLINSVILLE, Okla. — For 27 years, Cindy Johnson's been educating students.
Right now, she's teaching mathematics astatine Collinsville High School, but says her occupation involves overmuch much than conscionable teaching equations.
"It's the relationships that I physique with my students," Johnson said. "We could beryllium present for hours to stock stories."
Johnson said it's her occupation to marque definite the students successful her schoolroom are prepared for life.
"I strive to bash the champion that I tin bash to marque definite that they are prepared to determination connected aft my classroom," she said.
And she said there's nary greater reward than to ticker them go an educator.
"I person had students postgraduate precocious school, spell connected to college, and travel backmost to the aforesaid schoolhouse wherever I was teaching astatine the clip to thatch mathematics successful the aforesaid section with me," she said.
Her enactment is being recognized wrong and extracurricular the classroom. Last year, the teachers astatine Collinsville voted her High School Teacher Of The Year.
This year?
"For this year, I americium the territory Teacher of the Year for Collinsville Public Schools," she said.
It's an grant this humble and appreciative pedagogue takes precise seriously. She spent the summertime completing a portfolio highlighting her teaching acquisition and philosophy, and conscionable became 1 of the 12 finalists for the State Teacher Of The Year Award.
"It is conscionable an grant to beryllium listed with the teachers who are the different finalists this year," Johnson said.
Johnson volition find retired if she wins successful February oregon March, and says being recognized is nice, but her absorption volition ever beryllium connected her students.
"It's ne'er my extremity conscionable to marque a grade, it is my extremity to alteration their lives."
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