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Local Teacher Receives Award From Greenwich Kiwanis Club

The teacher was given the Joseph Mitchell Kaye Award. Kaye served on the Greenwich Board of Education for 10 years.

GREENWICH, CT — Greenwich High School teacher Bethany Fuscaldo was presented with the 2025 Joseph Mitchell Kaye Award by the Greenwich Kiwanis Club this week at the Havemeyer Building to celebrate being named the school district's selection for Connecticut State Department of Education’s 2026 Connecticut Teacher of the Year Program.

From left to right: Greenwich Public Schools Superintendent of Schools Dr. Toni Jones, Kiwanis representative Maryann Ferrara Ramos, Kiwanis President Christine Larson Edwards, Greenwich High School teacher Bethany Fuscaldo. (Courtesy of Michael Antonaccio/Greenwich Public Schools)

Kiwanis President Christine Larson Edwards and representative, Maryann Ferrara Ramos, presented Fuscaldo with a framed certificate, a tapestry with depictions of Greenwich landmarks, and a $500 check, according to the school district.

The award, now in its 43rd year, is named after Joseph Kaye who served on the Greenwich Board of Education for 10 years.

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Courtesy of Michael Antonaccio/Greenwich Public Schools

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Fuscaldo has been with Greenwich Public Schools since 2007 as a strings teacher at four elementary schools, the director of orchestras at Central Middle School, and currently the director of orchestras at GHS.

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