San Francisco Teacher Builds Community By Nurturing ESL Students

CBS San Francisco

July 6, 2023

SAN FRANCISCO - This week's Jefferson Award winner is a retired San Francisco teacher who has been making a difference among the nearly one in five California public school students who are learning English as a second language.

Teachers are known for going the extra mile, but Cathy Personius is known for going even farther for her students.

Personius just retired from Francisco Middle School in San Francisco, where she's devoted more than 30 years teaching students English as their second language.

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