The Board of Education at Cincinnati Public Schools honored 100-year-old Sayde Dean Monday night for her contributions to the school district as a teacher and her lasting impact on the education system.
Dean was born in Kentucky and worked in education for nearly 40 years, starting in Georgia before teaching at the Lincoln Grant School in Covington, then spending 33 years at CPS.
She taught special education at Hays School, now Hays-Porter, starting in the early 1950’s, where she began to recognize the importance of involving parents in their children’s education. Around that same time, she launched an early intervention preschool program, sending teachers into homes to help parents prepare their kids for school…