January 17th, 2012, 05:01
Emily Lembeck (EdD ’95), superintendent of Marietta City Schools, has been named the 2012 Georgia Superintendent of the Year by the Georgia School Superintendents Association.
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January 3rd, 2012, 01:01
Nicole Pfleger (BSEd ‘05) is named 2012 National School Counselor of the Year by the American School Counselor Association, reports the Marietta Daily Journal.
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January 2nd, 2012, 12:01
John Hagin (BSEd ’05), who holds a bachelor’s degree in agriculture education from UGA and teaches agriculture sciences to grades 9-12 at Upson-Lee High School, was recently named that school’s Teacher of the Year, reported an article in the Thomaston Times.
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December 7th, 2011, 05:12
Emily Gray (BSEd ’02) a physical education teacher at Red Cedar Elementary School in Bluffton, S.C., was one of several teachers across the country representing their schools at the HealthierUS School Challenge Celebration at the White House in October.
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December 5th, 2011, 10:12
“UGA alumna aims to rebuild trust as No. 2 boss of Atlanta Public Schools,“ reads a headline on a November 27 story in the Atlanta Journal Constitution on Karen Waldon (BSEd ’80). Waldon, who received her bachelor’s in speech education from UGA, was hired in September 2011 as the deputy superintendent for curriculum and instruction for Atlanta Public Schools.
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December 5th, 2011, 10:12
Wendy Little (BSEd ’92, MEd ’97), a fifth-grade math and science teacher at Youth Elementary School, has been named 2011 Teacher of the Year for Walton County Public Schools.
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November 17th, 2011, 03:11
Traci Jackson (EdS ’99), principal at Shirley Hills Elementary School in Houston County, was one of only seven educators in the nation to receive the Terrel H. Bell Award for Outstanding School Leadership on Nov. 15 at the 2011 National Blue Ribbon Schools Awards Ceremony in Washington D.C.
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November 16th, 2011, 02:11
Michael Rhett, a sergeant in the Air Force Reserves who has a doctorate in education from the University of Georgia, has said he will run for a Cobb County Commission seat, reports brief in the November 16 issue of the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
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October 18th, 2011, 08:10
Bonnie Stewart Holliday has been named by Gov. Nathan Deal as executive director of the Governor’s Office of Student Achievement.
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October 11th, 2011, 08:10
Shelly Allen (PhD ’10, EdS ’07, BSEd ’89), mathematics coordinator for the Richmond County School District, was quoted extensively in an Oct. 8 front page story in the New York Times on the Carnegie Learning mathematics program.
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