Annual Teacher Hall of Fame hosted at Western Kentucky University

BOWLING GREEN, Ky.- Teaching is not an easy job by any means, and many students don’t appreciate what teachers do until later on in life.

Every year since 2000, Western Kentucky University makes a difference for teachers by honoring educators and inducting them into the Kentucky Teacher Hall of Fame.

The teachers that are recognized make big impacts in every environment they enter.  Four teachers are being recognized for their ability to build the future inside and outside of the classroom.

Kentucky Lt. Gov. Jacqueline Coleman, who presented the the awards to the inductees, shared the valuable role teachers play in the lives of students.

“It’s really important for our future teachers to see that we respect and make a space for celebrating great teachers. Who are still remembered by their students, not just for the teachers that they were, but for the people that they are,” Coleman said.

The change that teachers make in the world does not go unnoticed. WKU will continue to acknowledge the history being made by past present and future educators.