CCSD was delighted today to participate in the annual statewide Future Educator Signing Day led by the Georgia Department of Education through the Teach in the Peach initiative! Twelve CCSD high school students from Clarke Central High School, Cedar Shoals High School, and the Athens Community Career Academy (ACCA) who have completed or are in the process of completing the Teaching as a Profession pathway at ACCA affirmed their commitments today to teach full-time in Georgia classrooms after graduating college. These students have already gained hands-on classroom experience as part of this career pathway, and many of them will be taking the GACE paraprofessional certification exam this month, giving them the opportunity to work in classrooms while earning their teaching degrees!

Congratulations to these students:
• Jakia Butts, 12th grade, Cedar Shoals and ACCA
• Mariah Carson, 12th grade, Clarke Central and ACCA
• Camryn Coleman, 12th grade, Clarke Central and ACCA
• Shelby McDaniel, 12th grade, Clarke Central and ACCA
• Gillian Williams, 12th grade, Clarke Central and ACCA
• (Not pictured) Elise Geier, 12th grade, Clarke Central and ACCA
• Tina Brooks, 11th grade, Cedar Shoals and ACCA
• Cheyenne Hardy, 11th grade, Clarke Central and ACCA
• Duncan Jones, 11th grade, Clarke Central and ACCA
• Elizabeth McArthur, 11th grade, Clarke Central and ACCA
• Vera Mize, 11th grade, Clarke Central and ACCA
• Dar'Maya Ollie, 11th grade, Clarke Central and ACCA.

Congratulations also go to Mariah Carson on being chosen as CCSD's recipient of the $500 Teach in the Peach scholarship and Camryn Coleman, Elizabeth McArthur, and Vera Mize receiving the Top Intern awards for the TAP program in CCSD this year! See a full photo gallery on the CCSD Facebook page!