Teacher gets outstanding honor in surprise announcement
Published: November 5, 2005
More than 1,800 Everett High School students and staff members expected to hear about improving high school education when state Superintendent Mike Flanagan visited the school this morning.
Then he announced the real reason for the assembly: Spanish teacher Alfonso Salais Jr. is one of 100 teachers across the country, and just two in Michigan, to receive a prestigious national award.
And the prize was even better: Salais $25,000 to use as he chooses.
“I’m in awe,” Salais, 33, said today in his classroom. “I don’t feel like I’ve accomplished a lot yet.”
But Salais, who’s been teaching at Everett for 11 years, is beloved among students for his easygoing personality and creative classroom antics.
“He goes out of his way to make sure we understand,” sophomore Kristen Fuqua said.
Salais also coaches basketball at Eastern High School and helped establish Michigan’s only high school mariachi band at Everett three years ago.
The Milken Family Foundation’s annual National Educator Awards have been dubbed the “Oscars of Education.”
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