In partnership with Rotary District 7390, WITF announced the winners of the Teacher Impact Awards on June 8. From a field of nearly 250 nominations, one teacher or team of teachers was selected from each of the seven counties within the Rotary district's coverage area. The teachers were honored for their dedication to their students and community.
Rotary District 7390 established the Teacher Impact Awards in 2005 with the goal to promote teaching and learning in its coverage area.
COVID-19 added some challenges to the awards' timeline. The nominations, which were received by Feb. 28, were scheduled to be judged in March. Winners would have been announced in April, with WITF television producers visiting each classroom and conducting interviews. A celebratory banquet was scheduled for May, where teachers and families could see the video features before the television special broadcast in June.
In the new school year, WITF plans to work with teachers and schools to create a 30-minute "Teacher Impact Awards" program to air on WITF in November. Then WITF and Rotary District 7390 will celebrate both the 2020 and 2021 Teacher Impact Award winners at a banquet in May 2021. WITF will accept nominations for next year's Teacher Impact Awards in January 2021 at http://www.witf.org.
The Teacher Impact Award winners are as follows.
Timothy Carroll teaches ninth- to 12th-grade carpentry at Dauphin County Technical School in Dauphin County. Carroll understands that all students have their own backgrounds and struggles. He approaches students with unconditional kindness and shows them the support that they need personally as well as academically. He has provided many students with needed resources out of his own pocket.
Brenda Johnson teaches seventh- to 12th-grade strings and orchestra in the Northeastern School District in York County. Johnson is a dedicated instructor, an advocate for school music programs and a visionary who has brought not only musical joy, but also the satisfaction of personal mastery and the pleasures of teamwork to many students over her years at Northeastern.
Justine Garman teaches kindergarten in the Littlestown Area School District in Adams County.
Margeaux Cronce teaches ninth- to 12th-grade family and consumer science in the East Pennsboro Area School District in Cumberland County.
Greg and Sheila Schmitt teach third grade in the Solanco School District in Lancaster County.
Holly Serio teaches third- to fifth-grade chorus in the Eastern Lebanon County School District in Lebanon County.
Rick Knepp teaches eighth-grade science in the Susquenita School District in Perry County.
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