Fourth-Grade Teacher Receives Herbst Award

Nayo Brooks, who currently teaches fourth-grade language arts and social studies at Burke’s, has just received the 2015 Herbst Award for Teaching Excellence. 
The Herbst Award is granted by The Herbst Foundation to Kindergarten through fifth-grade teachers in San Francisco.

Burke’s nominated Ms. Brooks for the award due to her qualifications in the following award-specific areas:
  • Engages students in critical and creative thinking    
  • Uses creative and innovative methods in her approach to teaching    
  • Gets professionally involved and achieves leadership among peers
  • Involves parents in student learning   
  • Stimulates the intellectual curiosity of students, fostering critical and creative thinking and problem solving
  • Challenges students to do their best work and to achieve more than what their expectations might be
  • Exhibits high personal and professional standards and continuing professional development
Ms. Brooks has been teaching at Burke’s for 16 years and has also been recognized as a National Board Certified Teacher. She joins Susan Deemer and Gale Mosheim as Herbst Award winners at Burke’s.
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