When a student crosses paths with a great teacher, the influence can reverberate well beyond the last day of school. Teachers stand at the threshold to the world; they have the power to take down or build up, to extinguish confidence or plant hope.
Two such teachers, Anita Collison and Katherine Sanford, both mainstays of the Lagunitas School District, are retiring at the end of the year after impactful tenures. Both women live in the…