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6A I DAWSON COUNTY NEWS I dawsonnews.com
Wednesday, December 25,2019
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Teacher
learning experiences. Sometimes it’s telling sto
ries about her time growing up on the farm.
Sometimes that means bringing in cow manure
for students to dissect, or asking her teaching
assistant to hop down to the river to bring her
back some fish so she can show students how gills
work.
“These kids had never seen gills before...so
here I am cleaning fish in my classroom and I can
remember him saying ‘Renee you have lost your
ever-loving mind’ and I said ‘No I haven’t,”’
Rogers said, laughing. “They have the opportuni
ty to put their hands on what it is I talk about and
actually see the digestive system, see how that
food progresses, actually see the respiratory sys
tem.”
With more than 30 years under her belt, Rogers
still doesn’t see herself retiring anytime soon.
“I toy with the idea, but honestly teaching is not
just a job. Teaching is my life, and I believe that
the Lord calls us to do different things and teach
ing is my calling. And even if I were to retire, I
can’t retire,” Rogers said, smiling. “I don’t have
time to retire.”
Now that Rogers has been announced as
Dawson County’s Teacher of the Year, she will be
representing Dawson County at the state level to
compete for Georgia’s Teacher of the Year.
“I feel very, very honored, very, very blessed
and very humbled. I’ve never been one to try to
toot my own horn, and I just feel very honored
that the community would choose me to represent
them as their teacher of the year,” Rogers said. “I
hope that I do a good job representing Dawson
County and if I were to get state teacher of the
year that I would do an excellent job representing
Dawson County...it’s my home, the kids and the
community, it’s my passion and I just want to be
that positive that people see so that it lets them
know what an awesome county that we have.”
Photos by Jessica Taylor Dawson County News
Above: Dawson County Middle School seventh grade science teacher Renee Rogers is the 2019-20Teacher
of the Year for the Dawson County School System. Left: Rogers adjusts a microscope before class begins
on Dec. 16. She will represent the district at the state level.
Photo for the Dawson County News
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