Carey Graduates Earn State Education Honors
William Carey University graduates were named Administrator of the Year and Teacher of the Year by the Mississippi Teacher Center, a service of the Mississippi Department of Education, during an awards ceremony in Jackson on April 23.
Dr. Patrick Gray, a 2001 graduate and principal of Oak Grove Middle School, won the state administrator accolade while Anna Morris, a 2005 and 2011 graduate and a teacher at Oak Grove Lower Elementary School, received the state teacher honor.
Each year, school districts select a top teacher and top administrator to send to the state level for consideration for the state honors. Gray and Morris were selected as the Lamar County School District honorees and then named as finalists for the honors. Four finalists, one from each congressional district, were selected. Both Gray and Morris were also honored as the Fourth Congressional District honorees.
Gray has been an administrator at the middle school for seven years. Morris has taught at the lower elementary for 10 years.
";We are extremely proud of these graduates and the way they've put their fine education and training into practice to be beyond successful,"; said Dr. Ben Burnett, dean of the Carey School of Education and former superintendent of the Lamar County School District.