Contact: Lydia Palmer

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State University’s College of Education is recognizing 15 spring semester graduates for their outstanding work as teacher interns.

The Outstanding Teacher Intern award is reserved for only those who go above and beyond the typical expectations of an internship. These students have demonstrated their passion and dedication to the classrooms in which they completed teaching internships at various public schools across the state of Mississippi this spring.

MSU’s most recent Outstanding Teacher Intern award recipients and their internship schools are (by hometown):

CALHOUN CITY—Faith Clark, elementary education, Grenada Upper Elementary, Grenada School District

ENTERPRISE—Sarah Brannan, secondary biology education, Hamilton High, Monroe County School District

HATTIESBURG—Riley Houston, elementary education, Longleaf Elementary, Lamar County School District

HERNANDO—Anne Klaire Wood, elementary education, Fifth Street, West Point Consolidated School District

LUCEDALE—Grant Eubanks, secondary mathematics education, Starkville High, Starkville Oktibbeha School District

MADISON—Teirra Harris-Farrar, elementary education, Henderson Ward Stewart Elementary, Starkville Oktibbeha School District

MADISON, Alabama—Brianna Ratley, elementary education, Legacy Elementary, Madison County School System

MARION—Apryl Butler, elementary education, Parkview Elementary, Meridian Public School District

NIXA, Missouri—Hubert “Trey” Loden, secondary biology education, East Webster High, Webster County Schools

NOXAPATER—Harley Thomas Ethridge, elementary education, West Lauderdale Elementary, Lauderdale County School District

PHILADELPHIA—Erika McGee Arthur, elementary education, Union Elementary, Union Public School District

POPLARVILLE—Daisy J. Raine, elementary education, Poplarville Lower Elementary, Poplarville School District

QUITMAN—Allison Norcross, elementary education, New Hope Elementary, Lowndes County School District; and Kinlee Odom, elementary education, Quitman Lower Elementary, Quitman School District

UNION—Mallory Malone, secondary English education, Germantown High, Madison County School District

MSU’s College of Education is home to six academic departments, a division of education, one research unit and numerous service units. Learn more about its elementary education undergraduate program in the Department of Curriculum, Instruction and Special Education at www.educ.msstate.edu.

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