State School Superintendent Richard Woods today announced the full list of finalists for 2024 Georgia Teacher of the Year.

Throughout the month of March, Superintendent Woods surprised each finalist in their classroom to let them know they’d been selected. All 10 finalists will meet with a panel of judges for formal interviews and speeches before the 2024 Georgia Teacher of the Year selection in June.

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Michael Kobito, an AP Music Theory teacher and high school band director at Woodland High School in the Bartow County School System, is the 2023 Georgia Teacher of the Year. State School Superintendent Richard Woods announced the selection of Kobito at a banquet held in LaGrange to celebrate all district Teachers of the Year.

State School Superintendent Richard Woods today announced the top 10 finalists for 2023 Georgia Teacher of the Year. 

The finalists were chosen from a pool of applicants all previously selected as their school district’s Teacher of the Year. The applications were read by a panel of judges that included teachers, past Georgia Teacher of the Year winners, state and local administrators, community leaders, and others. The finalists were chosen based on the strength of their essay responses. 

Tracey Pendley, a fourth-grade teacher at Burgess Peterson Academy in Atlanta Public Schools, is the 2020 Georgia Teacher of the Year.

Georgia School Superintendent Richard Woods announced the top 10 finalists for the 2020 Georgia Teacher of the Year this morning.

Casey Bethel shares his year-long experience serving as the 2017 GATOTY and talks about the state of education in Georgia.

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