While Tricia Moses, the teacher featured for her courage and caring in the May 16 edition of the New York Teacher, continues to wait for a life-saving lung transplant, the New York Daily News has chosen her as a finalist for its Hometown Heroes in Education award.

Tethered to an oxygen tank and still on a waiting list for a transplant, the PS 239 special education teacher came back from the hospital to her Bushwick school for two weeks in April to shepherd her 3rd-grade students through the state standardized tests.

“I didn’t want my children to get nervous,” she explained. “They’ve been working so hard.”

Moses, a 13-year teacher who suffers from scleroderma, an autoimmune disease that destroys the ability to breathe, was among the 250 educators nominated for the award.

A panel that included UFT President Michael Mulgrew will name the 11 winners from the field of 20 finalists on Sept. 19.