What the National Teacher of the Year wants you to understand about schools

Missy Testerman is this year’s National Teacher of the Year. She’s been an educator for more than 30 years and currently teaches English as a second language in the small town of Rogersville, Tennessee.

Testerman spent the first few decades of her career teaching first and second graders and recently picked up ESL as a specialty. She says she knew she wanted to be a teacher from the moment she met her own Kindergarten teacher as a child.

“I had so many good teachers along the way and that just cemented the deal for me,” Testerman says.