4 Ohio educators worth treasuring on World Teachers' Day

• They turned into "producers, script writers, performers and production artists" to broadcast daily lessons on local news stations, the Cleveland Press reported.
• Anderson, a fine arts supervisor, headed the team that prepared TV visuals.

🏛️ James A. Garfield, a future president.

Garfield worked as a part-time teacher and school janitor in Northeast Ohio in the decades before entering the White House.

• There's now a Portage County school district named in his honor.

❤ Ellis Braught, a hero.

The Columbus teacher saved a man's life in a 1927 fire, surviving his own burns and a fall out of a window.

• He was later awarded a bronze medal by the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission.

🚀 Gail Klink, a champion for space education.

Klink was an Ohio finalist for the Teacher in Space program that sent Christa McAuliffe on the Challenger space shuttle, which broke apart and killed all on board.

• "I have never felt lucky or happy that I wasn't picked," she told the Newark Advocate in 2011. "I was not lucky or happy. My comrade died."
• The Newark teacher later served as a global public speaker on the importance of space exploration.