INDIANAPOLIS — Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS) recently announced that Ethan Hoffman as the 2020 IPS Teacher of the Year. The announcement was made at the annual Teacher of the Year dinner inside the Indiana Historical Society’s Eli Lilly Hall. The winner will hold the title during the 2019-20 school year.
Hoffman teaches math to students in grades 9-11 at the Newcomer Program. This program serves immigrant and refugee students who are new to the United States and, in some cases, have never attended school.
Hoffman has been a teacher for three years, all of them at the IPS Newcomer Program. He received his Bachelor of Science from Michigan Technological University and a Master of Arts in teaching from Marian University.
