National Liberty Museum awards Newbold resident | South Philly Review

Jessica Marine is a hero. At the very least, the Newbold resident is a hero to her sixth-grade students at St. Francis de Sales, a Catholic school in Southwest Philadelphia. Luckily, the people at the National Liberty Museum are taking note.

\”What I know about it is I was nominated by a friend, Stephanie Scordia. She is somebody I went to graduate school with. She is a college professor at the Community College of Philadelphia. She nominated me and I didn’t know about the award at all,\” the 15th-and-Moore-streets resident said.

The award is the \”Teacher as Hero\” award, an annual honor bestowed by the National Liberty Museum to educators who volunteer in the community, demonstrate extraordinary creativity in the classroom and diffuse bullying situations, among other things. Marine, a three-year instructor of language arts, exemplifies the award’s stipulations.