As students across metro Atlanta head back to class, one Toomer Elementary School teacher says the first lesson of the school year begins long before academics.
For Khadijah Wisdom, Toomer Elementary’s Teacher of the Year, creating a classroom where students feel safe, welcomed and confident is just as important as teaching science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics.
Before the first bell rang for the new school year, Wisdom was busy putting the finishing touches on a brand-new STEAM lab that will serve kindergarten through fifth-grade students. After 15 years in the classroom, this marks her first year leading the school’s new STEAM program…