California’s Teacher of the Year never considered a career in teaching, not as a child, not in high school and not in college – not even when she was accepted into Teach For America after graduating from Occidental College in 1999.
“To be perfectly candid, I was similar to other TFA teachers. I thought I would teach for two years and then leave teaching and go to grad school in who knows what,” laughed I’Asha Warfield in her office off the library at Frick Middle School in Oakland Unified School District, where she’s been an English teacher since TFA sent her there 13 years ago.
via Woman who never intended to teach now praised as California Teacher of the Year – by Kathryn Baron.