The Morning Journal (Lorain, OH)
Teacher named Educator of Year
Clearview Local Schools administrators have selected their newest Educator of the Year.
Clearview High School teacher Marie Ternes is this year’s recipient of the award. She was honored during a May 13 Board of Education meeting.
In addition to a plaque presented by Clearview Schools Superintendent Jerome Davis, Ternes will receive a $500 check for her achievement.
“I do appreciate this,” she said during the board meeting. “I want to thank my family for being here because I didn’t know anything about this, so they did an excellent job of keeping this a secret.
“Without their help at home, I wouldn’t be able to do this job.”
Clearview High principal Noeleen Rothacker and assistant principal Michael Newman said their decision to choose Ternes for the award was an easy one.
“(Ternes) takes her devotion and dedication to her students far beyond even the very best of educators and that her innate desire to build successful and prepared young adults eclipses a profession all too often dominated by data, faceless initiatives and bureaucracy- driven proclamations,” Rothacker said during the meeting. “Mrs. Ternes is a builder of people at the core, plain and simple.”
Ternes works in careerbased intervention at Clearview High.
“It often can be easy only to see each student as a number or a unit to be passed through the halls of requirements,” Rothacker said. “But Mrs. Ternes truly sees each students as an individual with endless potential, and it is her purpose for each and every one to see that within themselves.”
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