ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Forty years into a teaching career that has reached classrooms in 47 states, Jefferson-Houston PreK-8 IB School AVID instructor Deedra Robinson stood in front of the Alexandria City School Board on Thursday and accepted the 2026 ACPS Teacher of the Year award.
Robinson, who plans to retire at the end of this school year, was honored alongside Jeanette Vinson, principal of George Washington Middle School, who was named the 2026 ACPS Principal of the Year. The two were recognized at a Thursday evening ceremony that began with a reception upstairs at 1340 Braddock Place and continued on the floor of the school board meeting room, where building-level Teacher of the Year nominees from each ACPS school were also celebrated.
“This is one of my favorite kind of times in the year,” Superintendent Melanie Kay-Wyatt told the room as she opened the recognitions. “We get an opportunity to recognize all of our wonderful teachers and principals.”…