Bill Nave, the 1990 Maine Teacher of the Year, is co-founder of River Valley Alternative School in addition to being a math and science teacher. Mr. Nave advocates the restructuring of schools and alternative education. Toward that end, he founded the Citizens Coalition for Education, a grass roots effort to gain public support for restructuring. Mr. Nave's own words perhaps best capture the reason he is identified as an outstanding educator: "We believe in our students until they can esteem themselves; and we love them until they love themselves." A member of the Commissioner's Teachers Advisory Committee in Maine, he finished third in the national Teacher of the Year competition.
1967 Columbia University, B.S.
University of Maine - Machias, B.A.
