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Indian American Revathi Balakrishnan named as 2016 Texas Elementary Teacher of the Year

Indian Born American woman Elementary teacher Revathi Balakrishnan honoured by US President Barack Obama for her contribution work in the Education.

Award: Texas Elementary Teacher of the Year
Venue: White House

About Teacher:

  • Hails from Chennai, India
  • Worked as Systems analyst with Liberty Mutual, managing databases and Programming for 12 years
  • Teacher at Patsy Sommer Elementary school and taking math classes in third through fifth grade
  • Represent Texas in the ‘National Teacher of the Year’ competition
  • Taught at Sommer Elementary school for six years before teaching at Forest North Elementary for Three Years

About Texas Teacher of the year:
Constituted in 1969
Headquarter: Texas, US
Honoured for excellence in Education, inspiring students, their colleagues and communities
Focus: Public Attention on excellence in Teaching

Other awardees:

  • 2016 Texas Secondary Teacher of the year: Martha Saucedo
  • Taught Family consumer science at Brady High School in Brady ISD for seven years
  • 2015 Texas Teacher of the year Named National Teacher of the year: Shanna Peeples




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