24 New Teachers Attend Orientation
Twenty-four teachers took part in new teacher orientation for Jasper County public schools Monday.
The new school year starts for students on Friday, Aug. 14, and pre-planning runs next Monday-Thursday.
New teachers at Jasper County Primary School include (top photo, left to right) Rebecca Ammons-Warren, Program for Exceptional Children (PEC) teacher; Kierra Rojas, kindergarten teacher; Lauren Deck, pre-kindergarten teacher; Brianna Stinson, pre-kindergarten teacher, Angela Savage, PEC teacher, and Maria Moore, CARE Counselor.
New teachers at Washington Park Elementary School include (fourth photo from top, left to right) Shamika Qualls, PEC teacher; Toni White, fifth grade teacher; Alexis Grzybowski, fifth grade teacher, and Allison Booth, third grade teacher.
New teachers at Jasper County Middle School (middle photo) include NeAnn Wooten, seventh grade science/math teacher; Rhonda Stephen, seventh grade English/language arts and social studies gifted teacher; Casey Wright, sixth grade social studies teacher; Jessica Sanders, middle school/high school counselor, and Mandie Behling, media specialist. Also, (not pictured) Jessica Sheffield, sixth grade English/language arts teacher.
New teachers at Jasper County High School (second photo, left to right) include Amy Cox, counselor; Kathleen Hatchett, Spanish; Bobbi Sauls, fine arts; Patricia Stafford, English; Gregg Brown, PEC; Beronica Bouhana, PEC; Jessica Sanders, counselor, and ScottiAnn Cummings, science.
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Toni White, fourth grade teacher at WPES, holds a achelor’s degree in education from the University of West Georgia and a master’s degree in elementary education from the University of Georgia. She previously taught in the Cherokee County School District and last year was the Reading Interventionist at Washington Park Elementary School.
Allison Booth said, “I am excited to be starting my 13th year of teaching. I will be teaching language arts and social studies at Washington Park.”
NeAnn Wooten is from the syrup city of Cairo, Ga. She is a 2012 graduate of Albany State University and looks forward to teaching seventh grade mathematics and science at Jasper County Middle School.
Casey Wright will be teaching sixth grade language arts at Jasper County Middle School. She spent the first two years of her career at JCMS, and is happy to be returning.
Bobbi Sauls is a Jasper County native who graduated from North Georgia University with a degree in political science. After working in Washington, D.C., Ms. Sauls returned to Monticello to teach high school social studies at Piedmont Academy where she taught for 17 years. She also directed Piedmont’s literary program and coached her students to numerous region and state titles in one-act play, debate, and Spring literary.
Gregg Brown received his master’s degree from LaGrange College and taught science, math, and social studies at the middle school level prior to coming to Jasper County. Mr. Brown will be collaboratively teaching math at JCHS.
Veronica Bouhana has been in education for the last 12 years in a variety of different roles. For the last five years she has been in charge of the Special Education and ESoL programs at a charter school in Orlando, FL. “I am very excited to be working with the students at Jasper County High School.”
Dr. Patricia A. Stafford will be a ninth and tenth grade literature teacher at Jasper High School. Her education includes: Ed S and Ed D degrees in Leadership and Supervision respectively from Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate Tenn.; master’s degree, Georgia State University; Reading Endorsement and Gifted In-Field Endorsement; Teacher Support Specialist. She has taught students at the elementary, middle, and high school levels as well as some college courses.
She is married to Harry C. Stafford and they have two children, Dr. Harry C. Stafford and Jacquita Stafford Hall. One of Dr. Stafford’s beliefs is, “Students don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.”
After graduating from JCHS in 2011, ScottiAnn Cummings received her bachelor of science and master of arts in teaching from Georgia College and State University. She will be returning to Monticello this year to begin her teaching career as the new biology and chemistry teacher at Jasper County High School.
Other new hires include three people hired with a elementary and secondary school counseling grant. CARE – Counseling, Assistance and Resources for Education grant. They include (bottom photo, left to right) Shirley Gee, Jeanie Cape, and Maria Moore.
