Makayla Boyles, Skyview Elementary

voted best Prek-12 teacher in morgantown in 2022

Makayla Boyles found her passion back in high school as a peer buddy for a younger student with a disability. “From that moment, I knew I wanted to help others with exceptionalities,” Boyles says. She received her master’s in elementary education and a certification to teach multi-categorical special education and autism from WVU. Boyles has been teaching special education at Skyview Elementary School for three years, though, as one can expect, each year has been dramatically different from the one before. When it comes to working with her students, Boyles says the most important part of teaching is that students know that they are safe and that their needs can be met. But it’s not just about her, she says: “Education isn’t just a labor of love—it’s an art of teamwork.” It’s a group of people coming together for the education of our children and, to BOM voters, Boyles is a star among them.

This is why she was voted best PreK-12 teacher in Morgantown in 2022.

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