TALLAHASSEE, FL — Leon County Schools Superintendent Rocky Hanna presented the 2025 Teacher of the Year award on Monday.
- Kenneth Horn is the district's 2025 Teacher of the Year.
- Horn teaches 7th Grade Civics at Montford Middle School, and began teaching 35 years ago.
- Watch the video below to learn what this moment meant to him.
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Leon County Schools announced their Teacher of the Year Monday.
Meet Kenneth Horne. He's taught at Montford Middle School since 2013.
Horne tells us he enjoys teaching civics and bringing history to life for his students.
He also thanks the other educators who helped shape his own teaching style.
"I think everybody's teacher of the year," Horne said. "We help each other with ideas all the time. A certain portion of what I do with the kids I thought up independently, but most of it, I collected from other teachers over the years. We've been very helpful with one another."
Horne says he got his first teaching job when he was 20 years old after working at several local museums.
The school district says Horne also volunteers at the Maritime Heritage Center in Panacea where he leads boat building workshops.
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