Cynthia Martinez, an eighth-grade history teacher at Fred Rodgers Magnet Academy in Aurora, said she wants to give her students the education she wishes she had.
Cynthia Martinez, an eighth-grade history teacher at Fred Rodgers Magnet Academy in East Aurora School District 131, was recently named by the Kane County Regional Office of Education as its Educator of the Year for Kane County. The Kane County Regional Office of Education named Cynthia Martinez of East Aurora School District 131 as the county’s 2024 Educator of the Year at an annual banquet on May 3.
Even when Martinez didn’t like the material being taught in her classes, she was always interested in history, but it wasn’t until she started taking college-level classes that she started to see what history education could be, she said. Through these connections, Martinez said she shows her students that everyone can make a difference for the better.
After the interview, Martinez pointed out posters made by her students about the bombing of Pearl Harbor in World War II. She said that students studied primary sources from the event and were able to figure out the reasons the attack happened from those sources, not from a textbook. After they have been nominated by their district, they are reviewed by a group of student teachers, retired teachers, university representatives, business representatives and national board certified teachers, according to Justin Sampson, the director of communications and marketing at the Kane County Regional Office of Education.
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