Eva Winkler, a former banker, has seen selected as the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching (NCCAT) 2019-2020 Beginning Teacher of the Year for Hickory Public Schools.
Competing for the title against fourteen other HPS beginning teachers, Winkler is a first grade teacher at Jenkins Elementary School. This is her second year at Jenkins. She served as a kindergarten teacher during her first year at Jenkins and was previously a teacher for a portion of a school year with Webb A. Murray Elementary.
Congratulations to Ms. Winkler!