During a regular meeting, the Polk County Board of Education recognized the full funding of the William J. Miller NCCAT Honored Educator Scholarship Monday, February 13. The William J. Miller Honored Educator Scholarship has been created to honor Mr. Miller, who retired after a distinguished career in Polk County Schools as a teacher, coach, principal, administrator, and superintendent.
A celebration of the Beulah Padgett Whichard Honored Educator Scholarship took place on November 28, 2022, at the Clay County Board of Education Meeting in Hayesville, NC. This scholarship was established in honor of the late Beulah Padgett Whichard, who was a native of Clay County and taught in Clay and Durham County Schools for 30 years. The Honorable Willis P. Whichard, a retired college law school dean, retired judge, and former legislator, established this scholarship in honor of his mother.
Kelly Anderson, a teacher at Lakeshore Elementary School in Iredell-Statesville Schools received the A. Craig Phillips II NCCAT Honored Scholarship recently during a professional development program at the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching (NCCAT). Ms. Anderson attended "Shifting from the Sage on the Stage to the Guide on the Side in the Science and STEM Classroom" in Cullowhee.
We all feel the effect of time. We need time to work on a school project. Time to incorporate changes in curriculum. Time to integrate technology into our subjects. Time to plan for the future.