Skip to main content 'Who you are is how you teach': Danbury program aims to encourage diverse students to be teachers FacebookTwitterEmail Angie Tovar is a teacher at Pembroke Elementary School. She went to Danbury schools and participated in a pipeline program through the public schools and Western Connecticut State University that encourages minority students to become teachers. She is the first Danbury student to go through the program and then return to teach at Danbury schools. Friday, March 12, 2021, in Danbury, Conn.H John Voorhees III / Hearst Connecticut Media DANBURY — As a kid, Angie Tovar created worksheets to help her mom learn English.