COCKEYSVILLE TEACHER

Archdiocesan Elementary School Teacher of the Year finds joy in the classroom

By Sharon Crews Hare, Special to the Catholic Review

Emma Ward is filled with joy to share that she laughs every single day when she’s teaching her first-graders at St. Joseph School in Cockeysville.

“I’m really lucky to feel that way about my job,” said Ward, the 2024 Archdiocesan Elementary School Teacher of the Year. “I get to do it. It’s not that I have to do it. I get to help children grow in their faith and knowledge and build positive relationships with families and students.”

Ward has been teaching for the Archdiocese of Baltimore for four years, the last two at St. Joseph. She obtained her early childhood education degree from The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., and just recently obtained her master’s degree in educational leadership from Loyola University Maryland in Baltimore.

A lifetime parishioner of St. John the Evangelist in Hydes, Ward said it was a distinct choice for her to teach at a Catholic school.

“I have such an opportunity to shape the whole child by teaching in a Catholic school,” she said. “I just FINISH READING HERE

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