FWCS names its teachers of the year ASHLEY SLOBODA | The Journal Gazette The applause at Towles Intermediate School began in Tia McFarthing's classroom, and the sound spread throughout the hallways once students and staff building-wide learned the seventh-grade language arts educator received a new title Monday morning -- the 2021 Fort Wayne Community Schools Secondary Teacher of the Year. Hours later, the applause at Waynedale Elementary School was immediate when Superintendent Mark Daniel joined an outdoor assembly to congratulate fourth-grade teacher Nikki Fultz -- the FWCS Elementary Teacher of the Year. Three other elementary and four other secondary school teachers were Teacher of the Year finalists.