Texas educator Stephen Cox named recipient of the 2022 Grammy Music Educator Award: "Teaching is beautiful"
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Texas educator and bandleader Stephen Cox fell in love with teaching for how special it is when a student learns something new. Now — 10 years after joining the small district home to Eastland High School as the school's band director — he's been named the recipient of the 2022 Grammy Music Educator Award.
"I fell in love with it. I liked the idea that whenever you sit down and you work with someone and they leave and they're better. It's beautiful. Teaching is beautiful," Cox told CBS News' Jamie Wax.
His teachings never left some former students who said they still reach out to Cox for help.
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