On behalf of the Wayland School Committee, we would like to offer our congratulations to Wayland teacher John Passarini on being named Disney's outstanding teacher of the year.

This honor reflects not just John's valuable contributions to the system and its children over time, but as he would modestly be the first to admit, the support and educational quality characteristic of the entire Wayland Public School faculty and staff.

John's work in adaptive physical education enriched the lives of his many students in ways that words cannot adequately express. His selection from more than 185,000 nominees is an incredible and deserved accomplishment. We wish John all the best, not only in this his final year of teaching in Wayland, but throughout his future endeavors.

Jeff Dieffenbach, Lori Frieling, Robert Gordon, Fred Knight, Heather Pineault

THE WAYLAND SCHOOL COMMITTEE