ECECD produces new commercial for early childhood professional recruitment campaign featuring NM Teacher of the Year Tara Hughes

Santa Fe, NM – Today, ECECD’s Developing Futures campaign released a new commercial featuring Tara Hughes, 2023 New Mexico Teacher of the Year, as part of an expanded effort to recruit new professionals to the early childhood education and care field. Tara Hughes serves as a PreK inclusion teacher for four-year-olds at Nye Early Childhood Center in Santa Fe, where she teaches both special and general education students. Tara is the first PreK teacher in New Mexico’s history to earn Teacher of the Year.