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Press Release
Coweta County Schools

Date: February 16, 2011

Coweta County’s 2011 Teachers of the Year announced 

2011 Teachers of the Year for each of Coweta County’s 31 public schools have been chosen by their fellow teachers.

All 31 Teachers of the Year will be honored at the April 26 Coweta County Teacher of the Year Program, 7:00 p.m., at the Centre for Performing and Visual Arts. The Coweta County Board of Education annually presents the program with the Newnan Pilot Club.

The 2011 Teachers of the Year from each school are:
From elementary schools: Bobbi Deling, Reach/Gifted (Arbor Springs); Cheryl Putnam, 2nd grade (Arnco-Sargent); LaNessia Miller, 1st Grade (Atkinson); Dana Miller, 2nd Grade (Brooks); Sandy Rodes, English for Speakers of Other Languages (Canongate); Misty Markland, 3rd Grade (Eastside); Brooke Barnes, 3rd Grade (Elm Street); Cyndy Truitt, Kindergarten (Glanton); Mary Dean, Media Specialist (Jefferson Parkway); Mary Amoson, Kindergarten (Moreland); Teresa Barr, 5th Grade (Newnan Crossing); Susan Jackson, 1st Grade (Northside); Karen Daniel, 3rd Grade (Poplar Road); Meagan Hinton, 3rd Grade (Ruth Hill); Lori Sheffer, 5th Grade (Thomas Crossroads); Sandra Buttry, Kindergarten (Welch); Mary June Wade, Kindergarten (Western); Lisa Fleckenstein, 5th Grade (White Oak); Lori Thompson, Reach/Gifted (Willis Road).

From middle schools: Deborah Mack, 8th Grade Language Arts (Arnall); Sarah Klein, 7th Grade Language Arts (East Coweta); Sean Parker, 8th Grade Math (Evans); LaKeisha Robinson, 8th Grade Math (Lee); Trish Barberio, 7th Grade Life Science (Madras); Josh Boyd, Band Director (Smokey Road); Bruce Humphrey, Science (Maggie Brown).

From high schools: Levi Young, AP European History (East Coweta); Amanda Sexton, Work-Based Learning (CEC); Bob Ramseur, Drama (Newnan); Lauren Smith, Math (Northgate); Jennifer Harris, Math (Winston Dowdell).

Coweta’s Teachers of the Year are chosen each year from among certified classroom teachers in Coweta County Schools, pre-kindergarten through 12th grade, including special education, physical education, art, music, and media specialists. They are selected by their peers for the quality of their teaching, professional development, teaching philosophies and methods, community involvement, contributions to education, and their ability to inspire students of all backgrounds and abilities to learn.

The county’s 2011 Teacher of the Year – who will also serve as the Coweta County nominee for state Teacher of the Year – will be announced at the April 26 program.

Nancy Williams, a 6th – 8th Grade Social Skills teacher from Madras Middle School, was chosen last April as the school system’s 2010 Coweta County Teacher of the Year. She is currently a nominee for State Teacher of the Year.

The Coweta County School System is the only school system in Georgia with three county nominees chosen as Georgia Teacher of the Year, including Lorraine Johnson, Nancy Royal and Jamie Lipscomb. There have also been thirteen Coweta County semi-finalists for Georgia teacher of the year since 1986.

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