High school French teacher Karyn Senita was named the 2022 Teacher of the Year by the Pennsylvania State Modern Languages Association. Photo credit: Grove City Area Senior High School

Many excellent teachers earn accolades for their work with students. One of these is Karyn Senita, a high school world languages teacher from Pennsylvania. In 2022, she was named the Teacher of the Year by the Pennsylvania State Modern Languages Association (PSMLA).

Karyn teaches French at Grove City Area Senior High School in Mercer County. In a career that has spanned more than 20 years, she has worked at Grove City High for the past six years. The honored teacher attributes her successes to her growth mindset. To this end, she has founded a PSMLA Global Scholars program. The purpose of the program is to help  students evolve into global students who have an understanding and appreciation of world cultures. Karyn has also served as a sponsor for her school’s Interact Club. And as if all that were not enough, she serves as an Adjunct Education Professor of World Language Methodologies at Grove City College.

Karyn earned her Bachelor’s degree in French and Secondary Education from Thiel College in Greenville, Pennsylvania, in 1998. She earned her Master’s degree in French from the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, Iowa, in 2008.