Retiring teacher picked for Teacher of the Year

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Finalists Mamie Car, left, and Mindy Webb, right, with Colquitt County School System teacher of the year Jeanine Wetherington. Alan Mauldin

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November 8, 2012

Retiring teacher picked for Teacher of the Year

Wetherington receives top honor 3 weeks before retirement

Alan Mauldin The Moultrie Observer The Moultrie Observer Thu Nov 08, 2012, 10:45 PM EST

MOULTRIE — Thirty-one-year Colquitt County Schools teacher Jeanine Wetherington was named Thursday as the system’s teacher of the year.

Wetherington, a gifted education teacher at Norman Park Elementary, was selected from a group that included 12 other teachers from county schools. In her acceptance speech Wetherington, who had been named a school teacher of the year two previous times, she said that she is retiring at the end of the month.

“I’ve been blessed that I get up every day and do something I love,” she said in an interview following the afternoon ceremony at C.A. Gray Junior High. “Working in a great system, surrounded by great co-workers and administration makes our job easy.”

During her time in the system Wetherington said she has worked with special needs students, gifted “and everything in between.”

After retirement she said she intends to continue making a difference in children’s lives. Since the death of daughter Sha in a June 2011 car accident the family has started SHA Missions, which stands for Sharing Hope Around.

“In late December I’m going to Belize for our second mission trip,” she said. “We’re going to take children at an orphanage some things.”

The group also gives a soccer scholarship at Colquitt County High in Sha’s name as well as a mission scholarship.

“Her flexibility in working with students, teachers and the public has earned her an enviable reputation as an excellent teacher who truly cares about people and education,” Norman Park Principal Keith Adams said of Wetherington in a biography section that was read at the ceremony.

The two other finalists for the system-wide award were Marie Carr, a biology and physical science instructor at Colquitt County High in her 24th year of teaching, and Funston Elementary kindergarten teacher Mindy Webb, who is in her 20th year in the classroom.

Other school teachers of the year were:

• Heather Grantham, a third-grade teacher at Cox Elementary.

• Joni Chambers, a kindergarten teacher at Doerun Elementary.

• Michael Rewis, who teaches broadcast video production at C.A. Gray.

• Brandt Sims, a music teacher at Hamilton Elementary.

• Lisa Duncan, a third-grade gifted teacher at Odom Elementary.

• Rexanne Yarbrough, a pre-kindergarten teacher at Okapilco Elementary.

• Cheryl Willis, a third-grade teacher at Stringfellow Elementary.

• Jessica Webb, a third-grade teacher at Sunset Elementary.

• Julia Wimberly, a Willie J. Williams Middle science teacher.

• Sharon Spencer, a second-grade teacher at R.B. Wright Elementary.

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