Beginning a career in education can be an emotional journey. The road ahead can be overwhelming and often met with challenges. Many new teachers navigate these difficulties with great strides and show success with lessons and build relationships with students, parents, colleagues, and the local community. Pitt County Schools is fortunate to have many sharp and bright individuals who are able to light the path for the next group of new teachers. Each year, phenomenal beginning teachers are nominated by their peers to be a part of the Key Beginning Teacher program.
The Key Beginning Teacher program supports and empowers our innovative, creative, and effective beginning teachers so they can provide the arch of support to those who are also embarking on the migration from novice to veteran. The program is based on the keystone, a central stone at the summit of an arch which locks it together. The program brings highly credible teachers in years two, three, or four together from all across the county. The Division of Educator Effectiveness and Leadership (DEEL) supports these teachers through staff development. Participants will be apart of the orientation for first year teachers, create resources for other beginning teachers to use, participate in training for other beginning teachers during monthly meetings at their individual school, and advocate for the needs of all beginning teachers to our NC Legislative delegation.
We would like to welcome the fifth cohort of Key Beginning Teachers who will begin their experience in August at the New Teacher Orientation. If we consider that each teacher has touch the lives of just 25 students, then over the past four years, participants in the Key Beginning Teacher program have touched over 5,000 students.
Key Beginning Teachers 2018-2019
- Caroline Baney, Lakeforest
- Olivia Bell, South Central
- Hannah Biddlecome, Eastern
- Jcelyn Bryson, Ayden-Grifton
- Ginny Collins, Early College HS
- Heather Corbett, Creekside
- Brittany Cox, Hope
- Heather Dail, JH Rose
- Nicole Davis, Ridgewood
- Simone Davis, Stokes
- Alyssa Douglass, Ayden Elem
- Ellen Draper, Belvoir
- Thomas Dudley, GR Whitfield
- Stephanie Flores, North Pitt
- Janie Goddard, DH Conley
- Deanna Heath, EB Aycock
- Kayleigh Jewell, Wellcome
- Allena King, Ayden-Grifton
- Emily Kus, South Greenville
- Brandon Lam, Wellcome
- Heather Ledford, Wahl-Coates
- Susanne Mullis, Pactolus
- Ariana Niehaus, EB Aycock
- Rebecca Poole, South Central
- Elizabeth Proctor, Eastern
- Courtney Riggs, JH Rose
- Aaron Rountree, JH Rose
- Kia Saunders, Farmville Middle
- Daniella Scinto, HB Sugg
- Julia Shannon, South Greenville
- Sandra Shephard, Alpha Center
- Dahliah Smith-Watson, Falkland
- Jennifer Stamper, Ridgewood
- Kasey Stephens, SD Bundy
- Brittany Swinson, Grifton
- Karen Taylor, GR Whitfield
- Hayley Wagner, Wahl-Coates
- Bethany Wantz, SD Bundy
- Jakita Wilkins, Northwest
- Kentrell Williams, Elmhurst
We are excited to work with these beginning teachers as they change our part of the world by collaborating and touching the heart and mind of one child at a time.
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