Susan Espiritu, owner/editor of Knox TN Today Inc. and a retired educator, was among the honorees at the 2025 Educators Hall of Honor awards ceremony held April 24, 2025, by the University of Tennessee College of Education, Health and Human Sciences.
Espiritu retired from Knox County Schools after 35 years, 16 as a school-level administrator. She was principal at Pond Gap Elementary when the school became the first university-assisted community school, partnering with Dr. Bob Kronick from UT and Randy Boyd. She was most recently principal at Sarah Moore Greene Magnet Academy.
She was voted by her peers as national principal of the year for Tennessee in 2012…