‘Tell me what’s awesome about your kid.’ A top Idaho teacher taps the power of parents

Sonia Galaviz, an award-winning fifth-grade teacher at Garfield Elementary School in Boise, doesn’t think for a moment she is the only teacher in her students’ lives.

From the moment she learns who is coming to her class each year, Galaviz is working with students and their families to help make the experience in her classroom one of the best they can have.

Her work has earned her recognition from her peers, statewide and nationally, as well as from Idaho businesses determined to improve science, technology, engineering and math education in Idaho.

BY BILL ROBERTS
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