The December Teacher of the Month winner is Erica Wise, a fifth-grade teacher at St. Simon the Apostle School. Wise was nominated by student Josie Neu. As a reward, Josie won a pizza party for her class and Wise won a $50 gift card from Teacher of the Month sponsor Market District.
Here is Josie’s winning essay:
We love Mrs. Wise because she teaches us math better than anyone else. Because she is compassionate. Yes, there are some people in our classes that our a little slow, but she always waits for them to catch up or just to read a passage. She always manages to sneak fun into her lessons, or even a game! If you ask all of the fifth graders, or even sixth graders, who their favorite teacher is it will almost always be Mrs. Wise. She always seems to bring out the potential in all of my classmates. She is never strict and tells us funny stories about what her kids or dogs do on a daily basis. She even makes the most boring subject seem fun. Whenever we have a project to do she lets us be creative with it. At recess me and some other fifth grade girls were talking about nominating our teacher for teacher of the month since someone in our grade has. Their class won a pizza party! We asked the office how we could nominate Mrs. Wise and they said to type an essay. So we did! I really hope you can consider Mrs. Wise for teacher of the month. Thank you for your time, and have a great day.
