Top Teachers Honored in El Segundo
As they do each year, educators in El Segundo Unified convened recently for an in-service event that doubled as a day to celebrate the cream of its crop.
Four women this season were named "Teachers of the Year" for the small suburban district whose campuses, its high school especially, with its austere brick and lush green grass, have become a film-crew favorite.
The honorees, who were officially feted March 14 in an Embassy Suites ballroom, are: Marie Loye, a former optician-turned-teacher who mans a first-grade class at Richmond Street School; Center Street kindergarten teacher Marva Murray; 19-year special-education veteran Roberta (Bobbie) Misak; and El Segundo High social-studies teacher Sarah Briney (who, incidently, grew up in 'Gundo schools and had Murray for first grade!).