By Leslie Postal
ORLANDO, FL — The chorus teacher at Freedom High School knows from personal experience that teachers have the power to save “lost children.” When he was such a child — a badly behaving ninth grader with a distraught single mother — a music teacher took a chance on him by encouraging him musically and academically.
“My beliefs about the power of education are rooted in my story,” wrote Tesfa Wondemagegnehu, in his application to be Orange County’s teacher of the year.
His success in using his story to inspire students and in building an award-winning choral program in just three years on the job won Wondemagegnehu the district’s top teaching award this evening.
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