Through the ongoing global pandemic, these 16 educators work hard so students in the First State get the most from every school day.
riginally from Liberia, Sia Willie settled in Delaware with her family after stopovers in Maryland (where her parents relocated when she was a teenager) and Massachusetts. With nearly two decades of teaching experience—15 of those at Wilmington Friends—she’s been at the helm of the first-grade classroom for six years, where she “loves infusing play into academics,” she says. “They are little sponges at this pivotal age, and there is so much they can learn from play and being given autonomy to [be creative].”