'Your papers, please' must never be heard in America
A former mechanical engineer who realized that her true calling was education is the 2011 D.C. Public Schools' Teacher of the Year.
"I think I've always sort of known I wanted to be a teacher at some point," said Shira Fishman, a math teacher at McKinley Technology High School.
"I think I've always sort of known I wanted to be a teacher at some point," said Shira Fishman, a math teacher at McKinley Technology High School. "I always did well in math and science, so it made sense to do engineering ... but there was always a pull in the back of my mind."
