JoAnn Hill’s parents, both immigrants from Italy, never graduated from high school, but they taught her the value and necessity of education, which drove her to share this value with others. She has spent the last 11 years teaching at Brent, pushing her students take pride in their work, and to promote and enhance their social and academic community. “All of my students learn that they are indeed skilled scholars who can achieve anything they set their minds to and are willing to work hard for,” Mrs. Hill explains. “They realize that they are all mathematicians, readers, writers, scientists, historians, artists, and musicians.”

Mrs. Hill has served as a Teaching In Action Consulting Teacher, has been included in the TLF Align Video Project to help train evaluators, and participated in an educational leaders’ trip to China. She appreciates how actively invested her school community is in student success, saying, “We are all committed to helping one another be the best we can possibly be.” Of her own role in that community, Mrs. Hill enthuses, “I love that every day is new, exciting, and challenging! There is no job better than teaching!” Mrs. Hill has been rated Highly Effective in all four years of IMPACT evaluations.