The Arizona Educational Foundation has announced its 2026 Arizona Teacher of the Year. It’s Tiffani Jaseph, a special education teacher at the K-5 Copper View Elementary School in the Sahuarita Unified School District.
Jaseph has been a teacher for 15 years, including at districts in Yuma and Tucson. She described winning the Teacher of the Year award as one of the most exhilarating moments of her life.
She joined The Show to discuss how she hopes to use this title to advance causes that are important to her.
Full conversation
TIFFANI JASEPH: My whole heart is in educational inclusion and being able to advocate for that and teach others about it and to really promote more knowledge and awareness around it. So my hope is to be able to use my voice for that this next year to share my voice on it, share messages, get people talking about it, the positivity that comes along with it…