By the time she entered kindergarten, he says, she was ready for the first grade.Ĭarver is now a high school English and French teacher and the 2022 Kentucky Teacher of the Year. When Willie Carver was a kid, he would teach his sister what he had learned in school. Like Banghart, many teachers have similar tales of how they felt the calling to teach at a young age. Today, Banghart is a music teacher in Louisiana and for the past five years has worked with students from Pre-K – 5.
“I made all-state for playing the French horn and realized that being a music teacher is something I could go to school for … and that’s what I decided to do.” “I didn’t know specifically what I wanted to teach … high school, when I got more involved with our band program,” they say. It’s a familiar start to a familiar story: Blaine Banghart wanted to be a teacher ever since the first grade.
