Tech ed teacher honored with Teacher of the Year

The Boyertown Area School District has announced that Josh Pennington, 9–12 technical education teacher, has received the 2017 Teacher of the Year award from the Technology & Engineering Education Association of Pennsylvania.

The award honors educators who have shown extraordinary contributions in technical education. Pennington has been a Boyertown Area School District faculty member since 2008. He currently teaches at the high school, and has also worked at both Middle School East and Middle School West.

Pennington specializes in printing, and started a screen-

printing club at the high school that prints T-shirts and programs for Boyertown Area Senior High. Profits from the screenprinting club’s sales are reinvested into the classroom to ensure that students have up-to-date technology. Pennington also oversees the Technology Student Association (TSA), which has groups at both the middle and high school levels, and has more than 250 members total.

For Pennington, the most rewarding part of teaching is seeing his students’ accomplishments. He’s had students place at the TSA National Championship and go on to study engineering at Penn State and Rochester Institute of Technology. One student even started a T-shirt company while still in school.

Pennington was awarded the Teacher of the Year honor at the 2017 TEEAP STEM Conference in October 2017.