Garfield High School’s Jesse Hagopian named “Secondary School Teacher of the Year” By Academy of Education Arts and Sciences | Seattle Education

Garfield High School’s Jesse Hagopian named “Secondary School Teacher of the Year” By Academy of Education Arts and Sciences | Seattle Education:

Garfield High School’s Jesse Hagopian named “Secondary School Teacher of the Year” By Academy of Education Arts and Sciences

Another one of our own in the news:

Jesse Hagopian and Michelle Bollinger (editor of “101 Changemakers,”
a textbook featuring some of Jesse’s work and a teacher in DC) leave the award ceremony with Jesse’s
two Bammy Awards on Saturday, September 21st, in Washington DC.

Garfield High School history teacher Jesse Hagopian was named “Secondary School Teacher of the Year” on Saturday by the Academy of Education Arts and Sciences International at a black-tie gala in the nation’s capital. In addition to this “Bammy” Award—the “Grammys for teachers”—the academy also presented Mr. Hagopian with a Special Achievement Bammy.

The annual Bammy awards recognize educators from across the education field: teachers, principals, librarians, nurses, school-board members, superintendents, and others.

Hagopian knew he was one of five finalists nominated in the secondary school category, but he had no idea the academy had decided to give him another Bammy as well. “They had just presented a Special Achievement Bammy to Sandy Hook Elementary School, and all of us in the audience were numb as we thought about the tragedy that school had gone through,” Jesse said afterwards. “And then, out of nowhere, I hear my name being