Prospect Sierra Teacher Becomes National Teaching Competition Finalist

An El Cerrito teacher has made it to the final round in a national teaching competition that could potentially earn her classroom $10,000.

Madeleine Rogin, a kindergarten teacher at Prospect Sierra School, was recently nominated to be a finalist in the national teaching contest the Great American Teach-off.

She has been working on a new way of teaching her students about Martin Luther King Jr. through a curriculum called the "Peaceful Changemakers" unit of study. Learn more about it here.

She recently made it to the final round of the teaching competition. With only two teachers left, and one last week to vote, she is urging local residents to help her win by casting their votes online.

"People can vote every day this week and the winner will be announced on April 8," she told El Cerrito Patch in an email.

If she wins, she said, she plans to use the money to help restore a local frog habitat at Canyon Trail Park as well as to partner with an elementary school in Ghana.

To vote for Rogin, visit the Great American Teach-off website here to cast your vote: http://kto6gato.maker.good.is/projects/7998?sort=796