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"  Daniel Rouillard  27, science teacher High School for Arts, Imagination and Inquiry in Manhattan &amp;quot;Every time I walk into his classroom, he&amp;#039;s sitting at a table listening to students as they demonstrate lab exercises. He&amp;#039;s got students who line up at lunchtime and after school to work with him one-on-one and in small groups. Last year, he got his kids to do independent research on global warming, outside of all the other work they had to do for school. Do you have any idea how hard that is to do?&amp;quot; --Nominating principal Stephen M. Noonan  Cotton shirt ($385) and wool trousers (part of suit, $2,740) by Prada; silk tie ($160) by Gucci; steel Museum Automatic Classic watch with lizard strap ($995) by Movado.  Paul Gerber  29, English teacher  Bayard Rustin High School in Manhattan &amp;quot;One of the biggest problems schools face is student lateness, and Paul has taken it as his personal mission to solve it. At around 6:30 in the morning, he sometimes calls kids in his first-period class, the ones who are chronically late, to wake them up. They might not like it when their cell phones start buzzing, but it makes the kids think, Hey, Mr. Gerber cares if I&amp;#039;m in his class.&amp;quot; --Nominating assistant principal Karen Polsonetti Cotton shirt ($495), silk tie ($155), and wool trousers (part of suit, $2,295) by Dolce &amp;amp;amp; Gabbana; leather shoes ($490) by Fratelli Rossetti; steel Carerra Twin-Time automatic watch with alligator strap ($2,095) by TAG Heuer.  Hakeem Mir  27, fourth-grade teacher  Abigail Adams School in Queens &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve been doing this for twenty-eight years, and teachers like him just don&amp;#039;t come around all that often. For him, it&amp;#039;s not just a job -- he thinks about his students 24/7. I&amp;#039;ll send him an e-mail at 11:00 at night, and he&amp;#039;ll e-mail me right back. He makes sure that nothing stands in the way of them reaching their full potential, and that passion alone makes him extraordinary.&amp;quot; --Nominating principal Randolph A. Ford Cotton shirt ($250) by Armani Collezioni; silk tie ($165) by Giorgio Armani.   Carlos Lora  39, Spanish teacher  Young Women&amp;#039;s Leadership School in Manhattan &amp;quot;We work in an all-girls school that&amp;#039;s primarily for women of color, and last year we had the highest graduation rate -- 100 percent -- in New York City. Carlos is known for using his humor as a way to connect with kids. He&amp;#039;s funny, telling the kinds of corny jokes that your old uncle would maybe tell, and the kids adore him. In a large way, I think they care about him because he&amp;#039;s a man of color who hasn&amp;#039;t abandoned them. So many inner-city families are broken up when the men in their lives take off, and Carlos hasn&amp;#039;t done that, and he won&amp;#039;t.&amp;quot; --Nominating college counselor Chris Farmer Cotton shirt ($60) by Tommy Hilfiger; silk tie ($100) by Thomas Pink; cotton corduroy trousers ($125) by Perry Ellis; leather shoes ($245) by Cole Haan; steel Judge watch with leather strap ($600) by Oakley.  Tadashi Dozono  28, social-studies teacher  New Design High School in Manhattan &amp;quot;You know how 19 to 25 percent of new teachers leave the system after a year? And then a third of the teachers say they&amp;#039;ll leave after three years? And then in some places, it&amp;#039;s like half leave after five years? Tadashi is the exact opposite. Over the years, he&amp;#039;s committed himself more and more to making this his life, and he&amp;#039;s made himself into a teacher leader.&amp;quot; --Nominating principal Dr. Scott Conti Cotton shirt ($250) by Ralph Lauren Black Label; silk tie ($115) and wool trousers (part of suit, $1,595), Polo by Ralph Lauren.  Mario Fanelli 32, math teacher  Edward Bleeker Junior High School in Queens &amp;quot;We have a diverse community of students who speak many different languages, and Mario has responded by not only teaching them math but helping them learn and develop their English by bringing literacy strategies into their lessons. He knows they need it to succeed and he&amp;#039;s giving it to them.&amp;quot; --Nominating principal Valerie E. Sawinski Cotton shirt ($40) by Izod; silk tie ($79) by Charles Tyrwhitt; wool trousers ($89) by Kenneth Cole.  Colin Shay 24, earth-science teacher MS 118 William Niles School in the Bronx &amp;quot;This is Colin in a nutshell: One day he came to my office and said, &amp;#039;I would love to start a GED program for the parents of this school.&amp;#039; He didn&amp;#039;t say it in a faculty meeting or some other place where people would look at him and say, &amp;#039;Isn&amp;#039;t he a great guy!&amp;#039; He volunteered to me in private, knowing that he might have to give up one or two evenings a week to start the whole thing from scratch. I mean, he&amp;#039;s a great guy, right?&amp;quot; --Nominating assistant principal Anne Piotrowski Alpaca-and-wool sweater ($835) and cotton shirt ($225) by Calvin Klein Collection; cashmere tie ($195) by Borrelli; cotton jeans ($210) by Diesel; stainless-steel CK Bold watch ($235) by CK Calvin Klein Watches.  Michael Wolach  26, English-literature teacher  Jill Chaifetz Transfer High School in the Bronx &amp;quot;He&amp;#039;s got what I call the teacher gene, and that can&amp;#039;t be taught. He&amp;#039;s always thinking about how to engage kids on their own terms, whether they have a supportive home life or have children of their own and are struggling to make ends meet. He takes the time to get to know his students and meets each of them where they&amp;#039;re at.&amp;quot; --Nominating principal Anne Fennelly Wool vest and wool trousers (part of suit, $995) by Boss Black; cotton shirt ($115) by Perry Ellis; silk tie ($75) by Brooks Brothers. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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