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Teacher Of The Year Award

To give back to the great teachers in our area, and further promote financial literacy to our area youth, we will present one of the following teachers with the Corry Federal Credit Union Teacher of the Year Award on Saturday, September 16, 2017.

This award includes; a $300 Visa gift card for classroom supplies, a free subscription to Banzai! (an online financial literacy program), a presentation from CFCU staff about financial literacy tailored to their class, and CFCU swag for themselves and a little something for their students. The following three teachers had the highest number of nominations and are now competing for this award.

Please enter the name of your selected teacher and your email address to vote. You may vote once, daily.

Chelsea Messinger - Miss Messinger was born and raised in Corry, PA. She is a first grade teacher at Corry Area Primary School and was hired by the Corry School District in 2014. Miss Messinger graduated from Edinboro University with a dual certification in Early Childhood and Elementary Education and earned her Master’s degree in Reading, also from Edinboro University. She is an Orton-Gillingham Community Educator along with the Varsity Girls Track and Field Coach and Middle School Cross-Country Coach.

Shannon West - Mrs. West graduated from Riverside High School in 1997 and graduated from Mercyhurst in 2001 with a Bachelor of Arts in Elementary Education and Early Childhood Education with a minor in Dance and then went on to pursue her Master’s degree in Special Education through a Graduate Assistant position at Mercyhurst, that had her teaching in Erie. She started in Corry in 2002 teaching 6th grade. Apart from two years she spent teaching 5th grade, all her time in Corry in has been spent teaching 6th. However, this coming school year she will be returning to 5th grade at Corry Intermediate School and is currently working to earn her 7-12 Social Studies certification.

Teri Beach - Mrs. Beach graduated from Gannon University in 1998 with a dual certification in Early Childhood and Elementary Education. She was hired by the Corry Area School District in 1999 as a second/third grade mixed classroom teacher. She has since taught kindergarten, first grade, and second grade. She has also had the opportunity to loop as a kindergarten/first teacher and a first grade/second grade teacher. Mrs. Beach is currently teaching kindergarten at Corry Area Primary School. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her husband and children.