Cranberry educator is PETA’s teacher of the year
A Cranberry Township educator has been named Middle School Teacher of the Year for 2025 by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
Caroline Combemale, a seventh-grade teacher for Pennsylvania Distance Learning Charter School, was chosen by TeachKind, PETA’s humane education division. Combemale received the recognition for teaching her students to think critically about humans’ impact on animals and the planet, according to a PETA news release.
Combemale is a vocal opponent of cruel animal dissection. She enrolled her school in PETA’s Kind Frog pilot program, which provides hyperrealistic synthetic frogs for cruelty-free dissection. She also shares videos and stories of her adopted pets at home instead of keeping animals caged in her science classroom.
“For empowering students to lead with compassion in the classroom and their communities, Caroline Combemale is helping students create a kinder world, one pro-animal lesson at a time,” PETA vice president Marta Holmberg said in the release.
