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Meah King

A tenth-grade teacher at East for the past six years, King’s record as a successful teacher of English is outstanding.  For the past five years, her students’ passage rate for the state-mandated language exam averages 97 percent.  This past year, 99 percent of her students passed the exam.

But numbers alone are not what distinguish King.  School administrators appreciate the way she works with her students, motivating them and helping them achieve success. East High Principal Frederick Curry says King is one of the best teachers he’s ever known, and assistant principal Janice Tankson said King sets high goals and helps her students reach them.  Even more telling, her students and former students love her and the way she makes learning fun, even though she demands that they work hard, for example, making them write at least one essay a week to prepare for the state exam.

King’s recognition also takes into account her involvement in the community, much of it centered on young people.  She is faculty sponsor for East’s Peer Power program; she teaches GED diploma classes and ACT prep classes for high school students; and she works at her church with a mentoring group, Youth Eager to Serve (YES).

At age 29, King has been working with school-age children and younger for more than half her lifetime.  She began teaching pre-school at her church when she was only 16.