District taps top teachers
On Wednesday night, the best of the best were recognized by Guilford County Schools and SunTrust Bank, which sponsors the district's annual Teacher of the Year contest.
Winner J. Todd Cayton, an eighth-grade English teacher at Guilford Middle School, will be profiled in Friday's paper. Catch photos of him in action and comments from his principal and students. And oh yeah, don't call him Jason - the "J" in J. Todd. Not even his parents call him that! It's "Todd," he says.
In today's paper we ran a story with basic information about the winners. Read the story here and the district press release here.
Unfortunately, photos of only three finalists made it into the paper. Two finalists, including High School Teacher of the Year winner Franklin "Chris" Goins from Dudley, didn't appear today. Their photos will run in Friday's paper.
We apologize to Mr. Goins and Susan Marshall, finalist from Kernodle Middle School, for inadvertently omitting their pictures.
Congratulations to all of the finalists, who were the top five teachers in the district. Considering there are about 4,400 teachers, that's quite an honor.
Listen here for applause. (All right, you caught me. I'm not tech savvy enough to add cool sound effects like that. But just wait, one day I'll figure it out and Wow you!)
Comments (7)
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What is it with GCS and the N&R? Dr. Weast's letter is mistyped; the top teachers are omitted...you'd think the N&R flunked its end-of-grade test. You have to stop making such noticeable mistakes about the school system. (make smaller ones :)
It's hard to get it right every day. I recently posted -- as fact -- some satire and got leveled for it. It's difficult to fall on my sword and I'm a lot less public than you are. Sympathies.
Posted on September 15, 2005 9:24 PM
Sue,
Dr. Weast is a superintendent in Maryland now. He left GCS several years ago. Our current superintendent is Dr. Grier.
Cheers!
Posted on September 16, 2005 9:30 AM
Sue was trying to take a stab at satire.
She failed.
Posted on September 16, 2005 2:56 PM
Our granddaughter, now ninth grade, is quick to attribute her love of English to Todd Cayton. She is now in an English honors class at Western Guilford, thanks to his outstanding teaching ability. I can understand why he has been selected Guilford's Teacher of the Year. Congratulation, Todd, for an award well deserved.
Posted on September 17, 2005 2:24 PM
These teachers, as well as many others, are deserving of the accolades! My children have had many great teachers in all grade levels! It's impossible to name them all, I'm afraid I'll leave someone out, in Florence Elementary, Southwest Middle and High Schools!
But, I am curious about that one teacher at Bessemer who was charged with indecent liberties with a minor (forgot exact charges). Last I heard, GCS staff was going to review this guy's file to see what his background check had turned up when he was hired. What were the results of this review?
Posted on September 19, 2005 2:41 PM
Egad. The memory goes second (but I forget what goes first). Dr. Weast is indeed in Montgomery County MD where I have friends who not only have kids in the system, but also work in the school system.
I had a really bad week with satire...
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