2025 NCE Conference

Denise Leigh has spent her career empowering young people as a high school business education teacher for 28 years in rural Pennsylvania. Denise has taught 12 different business education classes over the years from Career Exploratory to Accounting, Computer Applications, and Entrepreneurship.  She is also a certified art teacher and enjoys using that talent to elevate her learners through an immersive instructional strategy where creativity and great, rich business education content is joined to provide a truly memorable and meaningful learning experience for her students.

Denise earned her Leaders of Learning Certification through Harvard University in 2023. She is a 2022 Pennsylvania Teacher of the Year Finalist with the Pennsylvania Department of Education and active member of NNSTOY, the National Network of State Teachers of the Year. She enjoys speaking at conferences with NNSTOY members to pre-service teachers to empower and motivate them as well as traveling through the U.S. to learn and grow with other business education teachers doing keynotes and sessions where she shares her engaging instructional strategies and love for teaching and learning.