Meet Sharita Ware, TSC’s Indiana teacher of the year finalist
East Tipp Middle School has a Top 10 finalist for Indiana Teacher of the Year. Plus: Why Fairfield Township Trustee Taletha Coles’ fire helicopter idea might have sounded familiar.
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Congrats are in order for Sharita Ware, an East Tipp Middle School engineering and technology teacher, who found out last week she was in the final 10 for Indiana’s 2022 Teacher of the Year honor.
There’s a long way to go from last week’s first day of school for the Tippecanoe School Corp. teacher and the announcement of the teacher of the year in October. So, hit Subscribe Now to get to know Ware with a Q&A in today’s edition.
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The Lafayette fire chief thought she was joking. (She wasn’t.) But there’s a reason Fairfield Township Trustee Taletha Coles’ fire helicopter idea might have sounded familiar. Take a trip back a quarter-century, when another Fairfield Township official thought that might work, too.
And before Coles was a Democratic township trustee, she was a GOP county commissioner candidate. Problem was: She didn’t vote for herself. Read why.
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