Coventry High School educator named R.I. Teacher of the Year / Video

November 30, 2011 4:24 pm

By Dave Reid

Providence Journal photo / Steve Szydlowski
R.I. Education Commissioner Deborah Gist, left, congratulates Julie Lima Bayle on her selection. Watch video of the ceremony.

COVENTRY, R.I. -- Julie Lima Boyle, who has taught English at Coventry High School for 12 years, was named Rhode Island Teacher of the Year Wednesday in a surprise ceremony at the school.

Governor Carcieri and Education Commissioner Deborah A. Gist led a crowd of dignitaries in honoring Lima in front of most of the school's 1,900 students.

A 1990 graduate of the high school and a Cranston resident, Boyle wrote in her application for the award that she strives to share her love of the written and spoken word with her students.

"I teach English as my mission, and I am still learning how to write truth," she wrote.