(Helena) – Superintendent Elsie Arntzen congratulated the four finalists for the 2024 Montana Teacher of the Year award on August 21st.
The selected finalist will represent Montana during the 2024 National Teacher of the Year Program in Washington. the four finalists for this year are Teresa Heil, a K-12 Visual Arts teacher at Frazer Public Schools, Jacob Turcotte, a 7th-grade English teacher and the lead teacher for the Buffalo Unity Project at Poplar Middle School, Tamara Fisher Alley, a K-12 Gifted Education Specialist for the Polson School District, Kevin Kicking Woman, a Blackfeet Language and Culture teacher at Browning High School
Last year Catherine Matthews who is a teacher at the Early Childhood Special Education Preschool at Hyalite Elementary School in Bozeman, Montana was Montana’s 2023 Teacher of the Year.
