National Board certified teacher Kari Steele, a sixth-grade Pre-Advanced Placement Literature and Composition teacher at Deer Creek Middle School, has been named a finalist for the 2011 Oklahoma Teacher of the Year.
Steele is a 20-year teacher and she has been in her current position for four years with previous employment at Putnam City and Midwest City-Del City public schools.
She believes children learn best when actively involved with a variety of hands-on lessons, and her students know that her classroom is going to be “active, fun and loud.” Read more here.
