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2018 BTS GUIDE, see pages 1A-6B
2018 TEACHER OF THE YEAR
Elm Street music instructor helps connect music to life itive behavior teams and heading up the school’s Monday running club. He spends his planning time visiting other classes, supporting the work of classroom teachers and students in an academic setting, Hildebrand said. He also has helped organize play days and cookouts in neighborhoods near Elm Street, and he even installed full stage lighting at the school on his own time. He accepted the award at a May ceremony honoring Teachers of the Year from 31 schools in the Coweta County School System, from which three finalists were selected. The other two finalists were Lori Beuttenmuller, an ESL teacher at Welch Elementary School; and Cathrine Nolan, a science and agriculture teacher at the Central Educational Center.
PHOTO BY BETH NEELY
Elm Street Elementary School music teacher Josh Tate, Coweta County’s 2018 Teacher of the Year, dances with students during the school’s Chuck Wagon Day celebration.
BY REBECCA LEFTWICH becky@newnan.com
Josh Tate has spent his entire career at Elm Street Elementary School helping his young students connect music to their lives. Tate, the Coweta County School System’s 2018
Teacher of the Year, said his selection was “an enormous honor.” His colleagues – as well as Elm Street Principal Christi Hildebrand, who has worked with Tate for nine of his 11 years at the school – say it’s his will-
ingness to go above and beyond his teaching duties that makes him a successful educator. “The positive relationships he develops with all of us is the foundation for what he’s able to accomplish in other people’s lives,” Hil-
debrand said. “He opens car doors and ketchup packets with a smile each day.” Tate conducts the school chorus, directs school musicals and serves on the honor chorus board, as well as serving on Elm Street’s leadership, safety and pos-
TEACHERS OF THE YEAR INCLUDED:
Elementary schools: Cristy Fogle, fifth grade (Arbor Springs), Kelly Stephens, first grade (ArncoSargent), Christy Jennings, music (Atkinson), Kati Ferrell, EIP (Brooks), Ruthie Prost, kindergarten (Canongate), Debra
TOTY, page 2
Coweta County Schools to hold orientation Aug. 2 BY REBECCA LEFTWICH becky@newnan.com
COURTESY OF METRO CREATIVE GRAPHICS
Register new students now to avoid rush BY REBECCA LEFTWICH becky@newnan.com
School starts Friday, Aug. 3, and parents of students who will be new to the Coweta County School System are urged to register their students now to avoid the lastminute rush. New student registration is conducted at the school system’s Central Registration Center at
Mon-Thur: 10 am - 7 pm Fri-Sat: 10 am - 9 pm Sun:12 - 7 pm
Hours beginning August 6
Mon-Thur: 10 am - 6 pm Fri-Sat: 10 am - 9 pm Sun: 12 pm - 7 pm Located in Ashley Park
167 Werz Industrial Boulevard in Newnan. The center is open Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. All registration is conducted on a walk-in basis. Enrolling a child for school is a three-step process: Complete an online pre-registration form, which can be found on the school system’s web-
site at cowetaschools. net . Online pre-registration may be completed at home, or at kiosks available at the Central Registration Office. Gather the following required registration documents: Birth certificate – A state-issued, certified
REGISTER, page 2B
Parents and students will have the opportunity to visit schools and meet teachers on Thursday, Aug. 2, the day before the start of the Coweta County School System’s 2018-19 school year. School orientation will be held at separate times for Coweta’s middle, elementary and high schools. The schedule is: • • •
Middle schools: 10 a.m. to noon Elementary schools: Noon to 2 p.m. High schools: 2-4 p.m.
Orientation provides parents and students an opportunity to find their classrooms and meet their teachers
before school starts on Friday, Aug. 3. Teachers will not be available for formal conferences during orientation. All schools in the Coweta County School System will hold student orientation at the indicated times Aug. 2, but many schools will hold additional back-toschool functions. East Coweta High School, for example, is encouraging incoming students to attend Freshman Orientation Night July 31 from 4-7 p.m. Rising freshman interested in attending the event can register at the ECHS website. That site and other Coweta County school websites are linked at cowetaschools.net. Each website will contain updated information on school-specific activities for the new
year. Representatives from the school system’s transportation department will be available at all schools during orientation and on the first day of school to provide information about bus schedules. School bus routes for the new school year also will be posted on the school system’s website and on The Newnan Times-Herald website at www.timesherald.com . Parents who wish to enroll their elementary-age children in the school system’s tuitionbased After School Program will be able to do so on Aug. at 1-2 at their children’s schools. Representatives will be available from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at each elementary school.
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