NJ educator has been crowned ‘America’s Favorite Teacher’

📚 America has chosen its favorite teacher and he’s from New Jersey

📚 The honor goes to a second-grade educator

📚 He encourages his students to always be curious

NEWARK — America’s favorite teacher is from New Jersey.

A second-grade teacher in Newark has been recognized for instilling a sense of curiosity in his students, which earned him the title of America’s Favorite Teacher by genetics and biosciences company Colossal.

The company chose Sussex Avenue School teacher Jonathan Koch, 31, as America’s favorite from thousands of educators from across the U.S. and Canada.

Koch, who was born and raised in Cedar Grove, was honored at a school assembly hosted by Bill Nye the Science Guy…

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