High school business teacher Theresa Taylor has garnered as 2025 Regional Teacher of the Year Award from the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. Photo credit: Cape Girardeau Public Schools
It is always exciting when a member of our professional community is honored for their work in the classroom. One of these members is Theresa Taylor, a high school Business Education teacher from Missouri. She has garnered a 2025 Regional Teacher of the Year Award from the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.
Theresa currently teaches computer readiness and college readiness courses at Cape Central High School in the Cape Girardeau, Missouri. She also serves as the campus advisor for the CHS Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA). Furthermore, she is the building technology support provider and manages the school’s social media account. In a career that spans 25 years, she has worked at the school for 22 of them. Prior to teaching there, she taught at Delta High School.
Her passions are working to decrease the dropout rate, says Theresa. And she also spends a great deal of energy assisting first-generation and poverty-stricken students in their journey to college or trade school. To accomplish this, Theresa declares, building relationships is a priority in hr classroom.
She is also a committed lifelong learner and, over the course her career, she has attended over 70 local, state, and national conferences. She has been a presented at least 40 times. “For me, conferences and networking are the key,” Theresa confesses. “Through conferences and workshops I have been able to stay on top of the changes in technology and new teaching strategies,” she says.
Theresa earned her Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, in 1984. She earned her Master’s degree in Secondary Education from the same institution.
To lern more about Theresa, click on this link to an interview with her by the Missouri State Teachers Association.
