- July 26, 2024
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Old Kings Elementary School English teacher Joy Sanfilippo isn’t content just staying in the classroom: Over her years with Flagler Schools — the district she graduated from herself — she’s been a reading coach to other teachers for the Josh Crews Writing Club, created quarterlies for middle school students and weeklies for students in grades 4 through 6, helped create a poetry slam event for primary and intermediate grades, worked with other teachers to create English language arts curriculum maps, and even helped add a medical lab for the school’s medical flagship program.
"By having them locate evidence and then explain it or present it as an argument through writing, they learn to share their information in an organized and thorough process. ... The result, a student who is confident and develops a yearning to grow further. It’s inspiring!"
— JOY SANFILIPPO
For Sanfilippo, inspiration comes from seeing children flourish in a nurturing, educationally productive environment, she wrote in her Teacher of the Year statement.
“Watching a struggling student use strategies they were able to take ownership of and make connections to a topic is what inspires me to teach,” she wrote.
In the classroom, she emphasizes student discussion.
“By having them locate evidence and then explain it or present it as an argument through writing, they learn to share their information in an organized and thorough process,” she wrote. “The result, a student who is confident and develops a yearning to grow further. ”
