Jeff Peneston, NYS Teacher of the Year

Teaching is an art form that requires, skill, experience, courage, tenacity ... and a warm human heart. The foundation of the best learning environments can always be found in the respectful and humane ways that teachers build caring relationships with children.

... the measure of our success is not in the lessons taught and learned but in the experiences shared and remembered.

- Jeff Peneston, September 2010
NYS Board of Regents Meeting