“Even though Teacher of the Year is a single distinction, it’s not really about one person, it’s not about any one person,” he said. “This is not exactly the easiest place to teach, but it has certainly become home for me. I feel like when I’d probably given up on myself [in the past], the city of Baltimore didn’t, and there were a lot of people, my students included, who made me feel like it could be home. So Baltimore is home, Baltimore is family.”