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Directors Jeanette Bowlby and Eric Staats, along with Scott Greathouse and guest conductor Lydia Sheets, led this concert by Ripley Middle School and Ripley High School bands.
Suzette Lowe
All teachers want to make a positive impact on their students. They want to impart knowledge of their subject, encourage creative thinking and problem solving and instill confidence and acceptance.
According to her colleagues and, more importantly, her students, it is apparent that Jackson County’s 2020 Teacher of the Year, Brenda Chancey Brown, has achieved all of these and more.
Brown, sixth-grade science teacher at Ripley Middle School, has been in the classroom 32 years, with several of those spent at the middle school level.
“Middle school kids are great,” Brown said. “There is never a dull moment and every class takes on its own personality.”