Florin High Teacher Honored at County Awards

Robert Brewer, a math and physics teacher at Florin High School, was honored as a Sacramento County Teacher of the Year for 2012. He was one of two recipients of the award, along with Nicole Naditz, a French teacher from Bella Vista High School in the San Juan Unified School District.

Brewer and Naditz will now advance to the statewide competition, where five teachers are chosen as California Teachers of the Year. Those will be announced this fall by state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson, along with the nominee for National Teacher of the Year program.

Brewer was one of two teachers from Elk Grove Unified School District chosen as the district’s recipients of the 2011 Teachers of the Year in May. Brewer and Paul Cordero, a sixth-grade teacher at Charles Mack Elementary School, were recognized along with 13 other Sacramento County teachers at the county office of education’s annual Celebration of Educators last night.

Brewer, who has taught at Florin High for seven years, was presented with the county Board of Education’s Elinor L. Hickey Award of Merit, the highest honor bestowed by the board, and a perpetual trophy from the Sacramento Scottish Rite Bodies of Freemasonry.

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