National Teacher Of The Year Places Emphasis On Community Literacy
Her childhood admiration of a day care teacher and her college summers spent working at a young children’s day camp inspired Kimberly Oliver to become an educator. Since then, Oliver-a kindergarten teacher at Broad Acres Elementary School in Silver Spring, Md.-has devoted her life to building on these experiences, especially the one-on-one relationship forged between that special teacher and herself.
Oliver’s community focus, teamwork with other teachers and desire to see all students succeed are just a few of the reasons that she was named 2006 National Teacher of the Year-an achievement for which she was recently honored by President George W. Bush at a White House ceremony.
“I adore working with children,” Oliver said. “This experience helped to shape many of my beliefs about what children can do if someone believes in them. I knew then that I wanted to motivate and inspire the neediest students whom many have written off just because of the circumstances they were born into.”
Educational Achievement
In her six years at Broad Acres,...
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