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OXFORD — Oxford Elementary School teacher Melissa Guerrette has been named Oxford County’s 2021 Teacher of the Year. The honor puts her in the running with 16 other educators for Maine’s teacher of the year, to be announced in October. This is the third time that Guerrette has been nominated for the award.
Melissa Guerrette, fifth grade teacher at Oxford Elementary School, is Oxford County’s Teacher of the Year.
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Guerrette has spent her entire career teaching at OES. She grow up in Madawaska in a family of educators, graduating from St. Michael’s College in Colchester, VT with degrees in education and French. Returning to Maine in 2001, Oxford was on of the first communities she interviewed in and she has been there since. In 2005 she earned her master’s degree in education with a mathematics specialty from Walden University.