Ms. Donna Myers, 2024 MARION B. KELLEY TEACHER OF THE YEAR
On Friday, June 7, 2024, the North Adams Public Schools honored Drury High School teacher, Donna Myers, with the annual Marion B. Kelley Teacher of the Year Award during a school assembly attended by students, staff, and her colleagues, family and friends.
It is a great honor for the district to thank Ms. Myers and show her our appreciation by presenting her with this year’s award.
Ms. Myers has a knack for teaching life lessons within the curriculum; often sharing the wisdom of her experiences. She excels at building relationships with all of her students, many who return year after year to visit her and check in. When she’s not in her classroom, she is in the stands at most basketball games, chaperoning dances (even getting out on the dance floor!), getting involved in lip dub or other community centered events.
This award, named in honor of the late Marion B. Kelley, a former North Adams teacher and principal, is presented to teachers in recognition of their dedicated, skillful teaching, understanding of children, and exemplification of the “ideal” teacher. Mrs. Kelley taught in the North Adams school system from 1929 until 1936 when she married and had to leave the school system because state law prohibited married women from teaching. She rejoined the school system as a teacher in 1945 and retired in 1978 as principal of Haskins and Johnson schools.
Annually, a teacher is nominated for this award by fellow North Adams Public Schools’ employees and selected by the District Leadership. As the recipient of the award, Ms. Myers received a $100.00 gift certificate that she may use for supplies in her classroom.
