"A Riverside Unified School District history teacher was among five grade school educators named today as California “Teachers of the Year.”
Amber Carrow, a seventh-grade world history instructor at Chemawa Middle School, was selected by state Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell, based on a review conducted by a state selection committee, according to the California Department of Education.
The other four awardees are: Kelly Kovacic, a social studies teacher at The Preuss School in San Diego; Kathy Martin, a physical science teacher at Sierra Vista Middle School in Irvine; Melanie Tolan, an English teacher at the Sarah Anthony School in San Diego; and Valerie Ziegler, a history and economics teacher at Abraham Lincoln High School in San Francisco."