Trends In Education
TEACHER OF INTEREST
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ANNA HUTCHESON
Lives in: Port St. Lucie
Age: 47
School: Clark Advanced Learning
Outstanding
Teachers of the
TREASURE COAST
Center in Stuart
Family: In a committed partnership
for the last 20 years with
Teacher
Frank Hersey; son, Stephen, 10,
and daughter, Parker, 7.
Education: Attended Florida State University; received bachelor’s
and master’s degrees in English from Florida Atlantic
University.
Background: Grew up in Martin County, graduated from
Martin County High School, where she sang in OPUS and
loved to act on stage.
How I got into teaching: Through Lonnie and Gary Kirsch. “I
am not sure I would have survived the early years of teaching
without the guidance and support of these two educators.”
What I like best about teaching: “I really love the moments
when genuine connections happen ...when a student internalizes
what we discuss in class.”
Something my students probably don’t know about me: “I
enjoy camping.”
A voracious reader, Hutcheson enjoys showing her Language Arts students
how to search for the deeper meaning in literature.
with the students. She also finds those “aha” moments fulfilling,
when her students suddenly grasp concepts that she has
been trying to teach them.
“I really love the moments when genuine connections
happen,” she said. “When a student dashes in my room and
starts relating something we have been discussing in class to
something from their lives or the news. It’s rewarding because
they’re processing and applying it, and it’s on their own.”
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