Jenlane Matt is a third-grade teacher and mentor teacher at Christine Sipherd Elementary School in the Empire Union School District. Ms. Matt wrote the school's successful drug education program, which now serves as a model for other schools in Stanislaus County. Working with a literature-based curriculum, she promotes student self-esteem and discipline by encouraging cooperative learning and peer coaching. She gains her inspiration through the knowledge and responsibility that teachers are "empowered to make a difference in the lives of those who enter the classroom."
1978 University of California - Davis, B.A.
