Teacher at the Head of the Class
Janis T. Gabay, an English teacher at Serra High School in San Diego, will receive the 1990 National Teacher of the Year award today at the White House. “I see my primary task as bringing out abilities and talents that students may not even know they have,” Gabay says. State Supt. of Public Instruction Bill Honig called Gabay “the prototype of the teachers we need for the 1990s.”
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