Miller-Driscoll teacher Pam Sullivan had a dream when student teaching 20 years ago. She has lived out that dream and is now a star teacher at the Wilton elementary school.
The Sacred Heart University graduate has been teaching at Miller-Driscoll for the past 18 years as a first grade teacher for the first three years and a kindergarten teacher for the rest. She is now also a resident of Wilton and has a son in the Wilton School District.
"I have only taught in Wilton. I did my student-teaching here with a family member of a person I work with now," said Pam Sullivan. "It is a neat symmetry."
And the Miller-Driscoll community is lucky that symmetry occurred. Sullivan one of three grand prize winners of Main Street Connect's Star Teacher Award, is beloved by her students, their parents, the PTO and her colleagues.
"Mrs. Sullivan is a star teacher because she is everything a kindergarten teacher should be -- kind, steady, nurturing, fun and extremely, extremely patient," said Tracy Taylor, a parent of one of Sullivan's current students. "When my daughter started kindergarten, she was the ultimate shy girl, afraid to speak at circle time, scared to join groups of new faces on the playground. Mrs. Sullivan didn't hold her hand but she didn't throw her in the deep end of the pool either. She has helped my daughter quickly grow from the quiet girl in the corner to a chatterbox who actively participates in all activities at school."
Principal Cheryl Jensen-Gerner agrees that Sullivan is a star teacher and believes Miller-Driscoll has many more teachers of excellence. "Pam is the epitome of the teachers that we have here. When we honor one star teacher, by virtue, we honor all of them."
Sullivan, who grew up in Westport and later Weston and attended Greens Farms Academy in Westport, is happy how her life has turned out and was deeply touched that so many people took the time to acknowledge and vote for her.
"I am so lucky," said Sullivan, as she knocked on wood, about her life choice of becoming a teacher, working in Wilton, winning this award and her family.
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