Previous Massachusetts Teachers of the Year

2025, Luisa Sparrow, Oliver Hazard Perry School, Boston
2024, De'Shawn C. Washington, Maria Hastings Elementary School, Lexington
2023, Danielle ("Dani") Charbonneau, Martha's Vineyard Regional High School, Oak Bluffs
2022, Marta García, Witchcraft Heights Elementary School, Salem
2021, Jennifer Hedrington, Ferryway School, Malden
2020, Takeru Nagayoshi, New Bedford High School, New Bedford
2019, Jamil Siddiqui, East Bridgewater Junior/Senior High School, East Bridgewater
2018, Cara Pekarcik, North Quincy High School, Quincy
2017, Sydney Chaffee, Codman Academy Charter School, Dorchester
2016, Audrey Jackson, Boston
2015, Jeffrey Shea, Belmont
2014, Anne Marie Bettencourt, Springfield
2013, Kathleen Turner, Sharon
2012, Adam Gray, Boston
2011, Floris Wilma Ortiz, Amherst
2010, Jae Goodwin, Framingham
2009, George Watson, Walpole
2008, Michael Flynn, Southhampton
2007, Jessie Auger, Boston
2006, Suzanne Wintle, Bolton
2005, Nancy Tyler Schoen, Franklin
2004, Melinda A. Pellerin-Duck, Springfield
2003, Jeffrey R. Ryan, Reading
2002, Dawn Eileen McNair, Newton
2001, Marianne V. Moran, Methuen
2000, David F. Lussier, Andover
1999, Bruce M. Penniman, Amherst
1998, Mary C. Ginley, Longmeadow
1997, Leonard Swanton, Lexington
1996, Kathleen Sherman, Falmouth
1995, Jerry Howland, Boston
1994, Virginia Freyermuth, Duxbury
1993, Steven Levy, Lexington
1992, Ronald Adams, Quincy
1991, Charles Sposato, Framingham
1990, Molly Murphy, Brookline
1989, Marjorie Montgomery, Newton
1988, James McDermott, Worcester
1987, Margot Desjardins, Westport
1986, Donna Viveiros, Fall River
1985, Francis Smith, Wayland
1984, Cathleen Hughes, Scituate
1983, Donald Pottle, Shrewsbury
1982, Joseph Kelly, Lexington
1981, Margaret Campbell, Longmeadow
1980, Marta Valdes, Boston
1979, Rita Croteau, Worcester
1978, Olive Craigwell, Boston
1977, Martin Badoian, Canton
1976, Barbara Boschert, Worcester
1975, no selection
1974, Thais Waldron, Reading
1973, Marcia Hayes, Boston
1972, Marcia Fowler, Ipswich
1971, Robert Anastas, Framingham
1970, Lucille Thimblin, Tantasqua Reg.
1969, Ruth Doorly, Westwood
1968, Neil Fitzgerald, New Bedford
1967, John Moulton, Brookline
1966, Leah Benway, Southwick
1965, Vivian Little, Hampden-Wilbraham
1964, Edna Penwarden, Arlington
1963, no selection
1962, Lottie Perry, Norton
1961, no selection
1960, Edward Frude, Shelburne Falls

Last Updated: December 2, 2025