2020 Educator of the Year: Dennis Deerkoski - The Suffolk Times
Dennis Deerkoski outside his Mattituck High School classroom in 2018. (Credit: Rachel Siford) Dennis Deerkoski was fully prepared to return to his classroom for a new school year last September. That is, until he sensed that his profession had suddenly become a job. When it was determined that Mattituck High School would adopt a hybrid instructional model (part remote, part in-school instruction) for the 2020-21 school year, that pretty much made the decision for the math teacher. When Mr. Deerkoski returned to the school in August, it was to clean out his old classroom...
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