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Henrico's Top Teachers - Jenny Murphy, Maybeury Elementary School, fifth grade
The bus had broken down. About 30 fifth graders and a few parent chaperones were stranded on the side of Interstate-81. The DVD player was broken, and after an hours-long field trip with no way back home, the kids started to cry. But fifth-grade teacher Jenny Murphy immediately sprung into action. She encouraged the teary-eyed fifth graders to keep their spirits up by playing different games and pulling out a book to read aloud. Murphy stepped into “mom mode,” making sure each student found a way home, and stayed on the side of the road for over six hours until...