The email shocked Caryn Anderson, a teacher at Abernethy Elementary School in Southeast Portland for eight years.
A parent had nominated Anderson for the OnPoint Prize for Excellence in Education, and the email broke the news that Anderson, whose teaching career began 1999, had won. As part of the award, she received a check that would pay her mortgage for the next year.
“I just never had expected that after 24 years that anything like this would ever happen,” Anderson said. “I don’t like being the center of attention; I like to be in the background doing what I’m doing, because I love it.”
