‘I Do It For Our Students,’ Maryland Teacher Of The Year Brianna Ross Says

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BALTIMORE COUNTY, Md. (WJZ) — Educators are the backbone of society. They person possibly the astir important occupation of all: molding the minds of contiguous and tomorrow.

The value of that work isn’t mislaid connected Brianna Ross, a sixth people societal studies teacher astatine Deer Park Middle Magnet School and the 2021-22 Maryland Teacher of the Year.

“I travel to enactment each time and I bash it for our students, particularly present astatine Deer Park, a colonisation that’s mostly Black and brown,” Ross said. “I was intentional astir moving here, serving students of colour who look similar me.”

Ross, who holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Pittsburgh, is moving toward her doctorate. Besides that, she besides serves arsenic the school’s equity liaison and summertime modulation coordinator.

The seventh-year teacher was named Baltimore County Public Schools’ Teacher of the Year successful April, lasting retired from a assemblage of much than 150 teachers crossed the county.

From there, Ross was among 24 teachers from passim the authorities vying for the apical honor. Judges narrowed the tract to 8 finalists and yet named Ross the winner.

The grant was announced Thursday connected Maryland Public Television during peculiar sum hosted by WJZ’s Denise Koch and Dr. Darla Strouse, enforcement manager of the authorities Department of Education.

“I don’t deliberation this enactment tin beryllium done if it’s not archetypal for our emotion for our students, emotion for who they are and emotion for who they tin be,” Ross said successful accepting the award.

Making the grant adjacent amended was the information that Ross got to stock the acquisition with her parents, Vincent and Linette.

“God has genuinely blessed us,” Vincent Ross said. “It’s been a blessing to ticker her turn and mature. We ne'er thought we’d beryllium present watching her go Maryland State Teacher of the Year.”

Ross volition spell connected to vie for the National Teacher of the Year award, which volition beryllium announced successful April 2022.

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“If we privation to spot alteration successful our country, I deliberation it has to commencement with our classrooms first,” Ross said.