Haley Mears of East Millsboro Elementary School has been selected as the Indian River School Districtâs Teacher of the Year for 2021-2022.
The announcement was made at the districtâs Teacher of the Year ceremony on April 29. Mears was chosen as the districtâs overall winner from a pool of 15 candidates, one from each school.
Mears has been a teacher at East Millsboro Elementary School for the past seven years. She was a fifth-grade teacher at the school from 2014 to 2017 and has been an Intensive Learning Center teacher at EME since 2017. She began her career as a paraprofessional at East Millsboro from 2005-2009. She also served as a social studies teacher at Georgetown Middle School in 2009-2010 and as an English language arts teacher at Millsboro Middle School from 2010 to 2014.