Best Secondary Teacher: Karen Grassick
Karen Grassick has been a Science teacher at Carlton Comprehensive Public High School for 24 years and during that time her passion for teaching has continued to grow.
Grassick knew right away from a young age that she wanted to become a teacher and it was due to the amazing teachers she had when she was attending Carlton as a student herself that her passion to teach science was instilled.
“I have always said you don’t choose teaching; teaching chooses you,” said Grassick. “I just love science so much and I love to get kids excited about science.”
“There are people who say science is too hard, you can’t do it, but science is in everything, everywhere you look there is science and if you can get kids excited and interested in it then pretty soon they are so in tune that they forget that they thought it was hard and it’s not.”