Sarita Poston named East Side Teacher of the Year

Sarita Poston

Teachers at East Side Elementary recently selected third-grade teacher Sarita Poston as their Teacher of the Year.

“I have nine years of experience in the classroom, but I’ve been teaching since I was a teenager,” she said. Ms. Poston holds a bachelor of science and a master’s degree in education from Union University.

“Although I’ve always had a love for children, I originally started as a business administration major at UTM just 18 hours shy of completing my degree. My career was put on hold after getting married and starting a family, but not my will to return to school someday.

“After my children were older, my husband and I decided that I would go back to school, but not to UTM since I couldn’t leave my family. So I decided to go into education since that was really what I wanted to do. I enrolled at Union University and through hard work and a lot of sacrifices from my entire family, I completed my degree in education.”

“Ms. Poston is one of our best teachers at East Side,” Principal Tammie Canada said. “She serves as our hospitality committee chairperson. She does a great job taking care of staff members when a need arises. Ms. Poston is a team player and is always there to volunteer or pitch in to help. I greatly appreciate her and her hard working attitude.”

East Side Principal challenges students

 

East Side Principal Tammie Canada is challenging her students through a “Fact of the Day” poster. These are these most difficult facts for students to remember, so the reinforcement helps students with their lessons.

Students compete in Accelerated Reading Program

Students in Dr. Amy Harris and Mrs. Leslie Essary’s classes are competing in the Accelerated Reading Program by seeing which groups can read the most AR books.

Students benefit from intervention

Mrs. Ragan Baumheckel gives students at East Side an opportunity for extra help during her intervention session each day.

Counselor provides character education, individual counseling

Guidance counselor Flodine Hudson teaches the Great Character Education Program to East Side students when she meets with each class on a weekly basis. She also meets with small groups or individual students based on need. Ms. Hudson is also the TCAP and Think Link Supervisor at East Side.

IMPACT students learn about the “eye” and Braille

Mrs. Brittany Anderson, the IMPACT teachers at East Side, is teaching her students about Braille and reviewing with them the anatomy of the eye.

Mrs. Hooper welcomes new Prodigy family members

Mrs. Abbey Hooper, who teaches the Prodigy class at East Side, and her students welcomed new family members to the class recently – three Chameleon lizards.

Roving photographer captures the essence at East Side

A roving photographer at East Side caught students on the way to and from classes one day, a students sharing a story with her classmates, and an interactive bulletin board about constellations.