Dr. Margaret Drew, associate professor of curriculum and instruction, is this year’s Missouri Higher Education Teacher of the Year from Northwest Missouri State University.

Sponsored by the Missouri Council on Public Higher Education, the state Higher Education Teacher of the Year Award is presented annually by the office of Gov. Jay Nixon to faculty members at each of Missouri’s 13 four-year public universities.

Drew joined the Northwest faculty in 1996 after teaching elementary school for 13 years and serving as an instructor at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville for ten years. She completed a Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction/literacy from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale in 1995...

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