2008 Teacher of the Year - Mitch Coleman

Mitch Coleman is an agriculture education teacher at Dayton High School, where he has taught for all 18 of his years in education. Coleman says that he had wanted to become a teacher “for as long as I can remember.” His inspiration to become a teacher stems from watching his grandmother teach the first grade in Idaho.

“I saw students learn new things when they didn’t even know they were learning,” Coleman says. “I loved seeing her teach and wanted to be a teacher like her when I grew up.”