Baltimore County History Teacher Brianna Ross Named Maryland’s Teacher Of The Year

TOWSON, Md. (WJZ) — Officials announced that Brianna Ross has been named the 2021-2022 Maryland Teacher of the Year.

Ross is simply a past teacher astatine Dear Park Middle Magnet School. She was 1 of 8 finalists selected by the authorities Department of Education.

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“Team BCPS joins the full authorities successful congratulating Brianna Ross connected being named Maryland’s Teacher of the Year,” said BCPS Superintendent Dr. Darryl L. Williams. “She represents not lone the champion of Baltimore County’s teachers but the champion of Maryland’s educators, and we are each truthful arrogant of her. She epitomizes what it means to beryllium a talented teacher, a dedicated professional, a lifelong learner, and a caring and compassionate counsellor and person to students everywhere.”

Each of the 24 schoolhouse districts selects an outstanding teacher to vie for the award. Finalists were interviewed by a sheet of judges arsenic a portion of the last enactment process.

“Thank you, convey you, convey you to the authorities of Maryland and to the enactment committee for this unthinkable grant and recognition,” Ross said successful her recorded acceptance remarks. “I americium truthful excited to correspond excellence successful teaching, peculiarly connected behalf of the phenomenal educators successful Baltimore County. I americium truthful grateful that God has shown maine my passionateness and intent and He has conscionable directed each of my steps. A immense convey you to my parents who are cleanable and who emotion maine unconditionally, who commune for maine constantly. There are not capable words to archer you however overmuch I emotion you.”

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Ross continued, “To my unthinkable mentors Dr. Kandice Taylor and Dr. Nashae Bennett, convey you for taking a accidental connected maine and seeing imaginativeness successful maine that I had not yet seen. To the different educators who I person grown with, Evan Campbell, Natasha Outlaw, Ben Wolf, Shavit Poland, I would not beryllium who I americium without watching each of you bash your unthinkable work. To each of my household astatine Deer Park, I emotion you guys truthful much, and, successful particular, a immense convey you to my students. You person taught maine what it means to emotion beyond condition, to thatch with purpose, and to pb fearlessly. I would not beryllium the pistillate that I americium and the pedagogue that I americium without each of you, truthful convey you, convey you, convey you, convey you. And I americium acceptable to get to work.”

Ross was selected arsenic the BCPS Teacher of the Year connected April 27 among 157 teachers from schools crossed the county.

“Deer Park Middle Magnet School is honored and arrogant of Ms. Ross. She is simply a dynamic teacher, a existent leader, and an bonzer person. Our schoolhouse assemblage benefits regular from her engagement and interactions with each stakeholders,” said Dr. Kandice Taylor, Deer Park Middle Magnet School’s principal. “We volition cheer and enactment her efforts successful sharing her equity level with the authorities arsenic good arsenic her continued enactment with our schoolhouse assemblage and Baltimore County Public Schools. Get ready, Maryland, our TOY is acceptable to collaborate, advocate, and beforehand learning outcomes for ALL students successful our state.”

Ross is successful her sixth twelvemonth of teaching and serves arsenic Deer Park’s societal studies section chair, equity liaison, and summertime modulation programme coordinator and has been a BCPS program writer on with different roles.

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“In my classroom, I person created a civilization that prioritizes gathering affirmative relationships and world rigor supra each else,” she wrote successful her BCPS Teacher of the Year exertion essay. “It is my ngo to guarantee that erstwhile each of my students measurement into my space, they consciousness that they are portion of a assemblage that loves them, values who they are, and volition support them nary substance what. . . .Taking attraction of my students volition ever beryllium my archetypal priority.”