Longevity crucial to teachers’ impact in classroom

While school is in session, students spend about 30 hours in the classroom every week. That’s more than 1,000 hours each academic year.
This means teachers play a pivotal role, not only in a student’s education, but in their development as a person.
Tom Bowerman is a music teacher, and he has been at Willow Crest Elementary School in Anchorage for 13 years. It’s not just his job to educate, it’s to inspire.
Unlike most educators who work in one classroom with the same chi