2025 Oklahoma Teacher of the Year Melissa Evon, right, holds her award with state Superintendent Ryan Walters after being announced the winner at a gala Friday in Norman. (Photo provided by the Oklahoma State Department of Education)
OKLAHOMA CITY — Those who knew Melissa Evon the best “laughed really hard” at the thought of her teaching family and consumer sciences, formerly known as home economics.
By her own admission, the Elgin High School teacher is not the best cook. Her first attempt to sew ended with a broken sewing machine and her mother declaring, “You can buy your clothes from now on.”…