Pequea’s Elizabeth Raff named PA Teacher of Year for 2022 – Penn Manor School District

Pequea Elementary 6th quality coach Elizabeth Raff has been named the Pennsylvania Instructor of the Yr for 2022!
Mrs. Raff, an instructor at Pequea because of the reality 2014, Art & Entertaiment was browsed 12 finalists who took part in the Pennsylvania Trainer of the Year Conference remaining held in Hershey December 5 through 7.
“We are excited that she is being recognized for every last bit of her interesting work and devotion,” said Penn Manor director Mike Leichliter. “Elizabeth’s homeroom is a unique situation for her students to learn and develop. She creates a spot were students are propelled to investigate ideas in a steady and deferential climate.”
Mrs. Raff expressed gratitude toward teachers and chiefs for persisting around the last two extreme numerous years and acknowledged her students for giving her the possibility to develop to be a prevalent educator.
As Instructor of the Yr, she will portray Pennsylvania educators at the state level by talking at meetings, preeminent studios and expert headway classes and going to workforce regions, Experienced Art Mavens resources and colleges across Pennsylvania. She likewise will be a possibility for the National Instructor of the Calendar year Award.
Mrs. Raff was selected for the state grant by two previous Trainer of the Year candidates, Jeff Kuntz of Punxsutawney, and Maria Vita, a Penn Manor Higher School brain science educator who was a finalist for the 2019 honor.
Mrs. Raff was presented at the show in Hershey by an individual of her previous understudies, Stella Thomas-Wenger, presently a 10th grader at Penn Manor Superior School. Stella commended her past coach for the manner in which she connected with and roused students to find, yet to respect each other’s perspectives.
In a letter of idea to the Teacher of the Calendar year assessment council, Stella’s mother, Marlisa Thomas, had generous recognition for Mrs. Raff.
“Our relatives is extremely appreciative that our girl noticed an area in Mrs. Raff’s restrictive 6th grade study hall. She was sustained every individual day and tested to improve and flourish, scholastically, however in her awareness and development.”
Mrs. Raff’s homeroom is adorned in an Alice in Wonderland theme and abilities a tremendous library with distributions in each kind, as appropriately as a raised stage wherein undergrads can existing verse, book studies and special sound to the entire course. Raff energizes movement among her understudies and prospects them via real actual exercises that help them comprehend bits of discourse, scholarly shows and different examples.
Ms. Thomas expressed her little girl “was reliably occupied with type and respectful dialogue around fundamental troubles and the cost of gaining from every individual other” in Ms. Raff’s study hall.
Mrs. Raff instructed in Philadelphia for two yrs just prior to pursuing the Pequea staff. She moved on from Messiah Higher training with a recognition in rudimentary guidance and completed her lord’s confirmation in educational plan and guidance from Penn Condition College. She is presently seeking after her foremost certificate via Penn Condition.
Elizabeth life in Lancaster Township with her accomplice, Jeremy, and their child, Owen.
Penn Manor College District couldn’t be extra extremely satisfied of Mrs. Raff!