The Local School Improvement Council at Roane County High School is pleased to announce that we have chosen to recognize both a teacher and a student with our monthly award for “Making a Difference”. 

Nominated by a teacher, RCHS student Joe Blakey is receiving the “Making a Difference” award for setting a good example.  Without being asked, Joe frequently does various tasks to keep the classroom and school cleaner.  Joe does not use the excuse that the mess was created by someone else; he does what should be done regardless.  We thank you Joe for what you do to keep our environment pleasant, but we also particularly want to praise you for the good example you set.

 

Nominated by two students at RCHS, Mr. George Wallace is receiving the “Making a Difference” award for being an example of all that a teacher can do for students.  Anyone who has observed Mr. Wallace outside of ordinary instructional time has seen him “helping a lot of kids”.  He routinely spends his time before and after school and between classes mentoring students by giving them support, encouragement, and guidance.  Also, as an instructor, Mr. Wallace’s methods are far from ordinary.  As one of the students who nominated him reported, “[He] is a very intelligent man…” who develops students’ skills and understanding by engaging them in debates.  “I can honestly say I have lost every argument.  He has shut me down on every topic, and proved why I was wrong as well.  In doing this I have learned a tremendous amount of information, and have…become a better debater with every lost argument.  I now go to class looking forward to an argument so that I can get in it, lose, and then learn from it.”  Skilled teachers really do make a difference in the lives of children.  Thank you Mr. Wallace.