Two Area Teachers Receive Regional Honors

Two Mid-Columbia area teachers are among Oregon’s sixteen 2025-26 Regional Teachers of the Year.  Dufur School social studies teacher Sarah Anderson and Amy Huffman, a pre-kindergarten teacher at Little Explorers Preschool in Wasco, are receiving the honor given out by the Oregon Department of Education in partnership with the Oregon Lottery.  Anderson was noted for bringing creativity and dedication to her classroom, thinking outside the box to make learning engaging, relevant, and meaningful to students.  Huffman has spent her career teaching elementary grades in the Sherman and Dufur school districts, and this year took on teaching preschool at a newly opened site in Wasco.  Each Regional Teacher of the Year wins a $1,000 cash prize and is in the running for Oregon’s 2025-26 Oregon Teacher of the Year – to be announced in October.

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