Fairmont West English teacher Adrin Fisher, a finalist for West Virginia Teacher of the Year, is married to Mark Fisher, a Title I teacher at Monongah Elementary.

Title 1 teachers are licensed elementary teachers that work with small groups of children on math and reading skills.

Mark graduated from West Forest High in Tionesta, Pennsylvania (110 miles north of Pittsburgh) and Fairmont State. Adrin is a WVU graduate.

Adrin and Mark live in Fairmont with their children Sam, 13, and Elias, 10.

Adrin is among final finalists for the West Virginia Department of Education award who were selected from the fifty-five 2018 county teacher of the year winners.

The other finalists are Summer McClintock, Pleasant View Elementary School, Morgan County; Jada Reeves, Bradley Elementary School, Raleigh County; Clifford Sullivan, Mount Hope Elementary School, Fayette County; and Joy Van Scyoc, Moundsville Middle School, Marshall County.

Fisher encouraged civic engagement among her students that brought nearly $10,000 to the humanitarian organization Nuru International. Nuru, based in Irvine, California, works with rural areas in Kenya and Ethiopia. “Nuru” is a Kiswahili word that means “light.”