March 5, 2021 By NCEL
The students at Franklinton Elementary School see head custodian Scott Perry as a father figure and a role model, honorary titles he earns every day as he helps kids tie their shoes or assists someone who forgot their lunch money.
March 5, 2021 By NCEL
The success of the JROTC program at West Brunswick High School in Shallotte rests on the shoulders of its leader, retired 82nd Airborne Ranger Jeff Clendenin.
March 5, 2021 By NCEL
In a classroom at Wilkes Middle School in Wilkes County, Jeff Atwell, a teacher assistant, provides not only the care necessary to keep his students comfortable in the classroom, but the support they need to reach their potential in school.
March 5, 2021 By NCEL
Genee Dalton, a first-grade teacher, believes in the magic of learning and making every single day a “marvelous day in ‘Daltonville’” for her students.
March 5, 2021 By NCEL
James King is not just a teacher, he is also a civil engineer and architect who uses his wealth of knowledge to prepare high schoolers at Charlotte Engineering Early College in Charlotte for the rigors of college.
March 5, 2021 By NCEL
At Davidson Charter Academy in Lexington, Jason Berube serves as the hot lunch delivery man, the trash pick-up guy, the bus and car drop off/pick up monitoring guy, and “Mr. Moofus” to a class of kindergartners when he wears his winter hat with moose antlers.
March 5, 2021 By NCEL
What does it really mean to go “above and beyond” for all of your students? To Tawanda Hunt, it means saving 17 students from her burning school bus.
March 5, 2021 By NCEL
More than 400 students a week show up for PE each week at Pathways Elementary School in Hillsborough and somehow Coach Maria McMullin makes each one feel important.
March 5, 2021 By NCEL
The meetings will be held virtually and public can attend via WebEx.
March 5, 2021 By NCEL
The lessons that Joan Powell, a math teacher for 27 years, teaches in her fifth-grade classroom add up to the winning formula making Johnsonville Elementary School a top performing school in Harnett County.