OKLAHOMA CITY — Rather than having desks and chairs, Kasey Bennett’s classroom is “one giant makerspace.”
The 2026 Oklahoma Teacher of the Year has a long work station in her room at Northwest Heights Elementary in Durant where her students learn robotics, electrical circuits, computer coding, agriculture and other hands-on projects where “they never know they’re learning, and they have the best time.”
“I want them to have confidence in themselves that they can do hard things,” Bennett said. “We have two rules in our room: You can do hard things, and mistakes are how you learn it.”…