LaWanna Jackson is “teacher goals” for many of her younger colleagues at Galaxy Elementary in Boynton Beach.
She’s got decades of experience but still retains enough enthusiasm and verve to connect with the young people she teaches. And she has the type of total classroom command one would expect of the Palm Beach County School District teacher of the year, which is precisely the honor she won on Jan. 29.
Jackson, 44, had wanted to be a doctor or a lawyer when she was younger but decided on a different path after a student teaching project she had to complete as part of her biology pre-med/early education double major at Florida A&M University…