For the 康涅狄格河学院 (CTRA), an early college and environmentally-minded high school located on Goodwin College’s campus, innovative teaching styles and courses centered on community involvement are the norm.

The high school, which supplies each of its students with a MacBook Air to provide access to the creative power of a personal computer, strives to constantly be at the cutting edge — and that effort is best reflected in the dedicated teaching staff. 5月29日，康涅狄格河学院（康涅狄格河学院）在学校的年度庆典上，将社会学教师托尼·罗伊（托尼•罗伊）评为CTRA年度教师。 罗伊是这所学校的创始成员之一，已经在那里教书五年了。 “It’s humbling. There are a lot of other great educators who work here, and I think it could have been anyone else because everyone works really hard here,” said Roy about the honor.

罗伊是由他的老师同事提名的，学生和老师都知道他是一股不可忽视的力量。 他设计并教授了公民学、食品系统、社会正义和性别研究等课程，这些课程在学生中广受欢迎，经常涉及康涅狄格河沿岸的实地考察。 罗伊还致力于将社区行动和参与带到课堂之外。

Since CTRA’s founding five years ago, Roy has supervised the CTRA Activists. 罗伊解释说，这个俱乐部的重点是帮助社区，以及在高中环境中解决社会正义问题。 作为一个团体，他们参加了全州范围的活动，如“共同重建”和“反饥饿行走”。 去年，学校为“反饥饿行走”活动筹集了大约1400美元，俱乐部计划继续这一传统。

The club’s first event on the school campus was a Mix it Up at Lunch Day in 2010, where students were encouraged to sit with people they had never eaten lunch with before and make new friends. 这种使学生群体多样化的方式扩展到了更严重的问题上，比如学生环境中的性别不平等，这是通过一个名为GirlCott的项目来探讨的。 The focus of GirlCott shifts every year — past topics have included the makeup industry to domestic violence — and culminates in a schoolwide assembly or show.

尽管罗伊指导俱乐部完成了所有这些项目，但他并不声称自己是背后的推动力量。 “I think my role is that of a coach, someone who is there for support and guidance and sometimes a little bit of boosting. I think that same kind of thing goes into my classroom as well,” Roy explained. 他提到，康涅狄格州越来越多的教师接受这种教学方式，而不仅仅是CTRA的教师。

然而，罗伊解释说，他不认为他可以实现所有这一切。 他一定要提到他认为使他的成功成为可能的其他人，感谢他们的支持。 “Without my other colleagues in my department, who all worked together to build this great curriculum; without my wife, who is a major activist in this area and inspires me every day, this wouldn’t be possible,” he said.