WATAUGA — Watauga County Schools named the Rookie Teacher of the Year and the Teacher of the Year on May 14.

Benjamin Brown, an agriculture teacher at Mabel and Cove Creek schools, was named Watauga County Schools Rookie Teacher of the Year. Mabel and Parkway School music teacher Erin Ellington was named Watauga County Schools district-wide Teacher of the Year in a surprise — and appropriately socially distanced — visit to her home.

Tierra Stark, Benjamin Brown

Watauga County Schools CTE Director Tierra Stark congratulates Benjamin Brown for his award, as she oversees the WCS Career and Technical Education Program that brought on Brown last year as its first middle school level agriculture teacher.

Erin Ellington

Erin Ellington opens her door and is told she’s been named WCS Teacher of the Year by Superintendent Scott Elliott.

  

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