This week's Jefferson Award winner is a retired San Francisco teacher who has been making a difference among the nearly one in five California public school students who are learning English as a second language.
Teachers are known for going the extra mile, but Cathy Personius is known for going even farther for her students.
Saleh added,"The first time I came, I wasn't [able to] speak English. I know only the letters, numbers, days of the week, months." But now, his English is better.He brought flowers on her last day of school, and told her,"That's what we loved about you. You always went the extra step, the extra mile."
Fellow teacher Cynthia Cen says Personius has always put others first like the time she got an unexpected bonus. Outside the classroom, Personius also signed up to welcome new immigrant families into her own home before they found permanent housing.
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