Winthrop educators to honor top S.C. teachers

Winthrop University educators want to recognize top teachers for the second year as part of an endowed award to honor the state’s mentor teachers for their efforts. “Leading the Way” is open to public school teachers in South Carolina who are on continuing contract.

The teachers must be a formal mentor to beginning or veteran teachers..a mentor teacher for pre-service teacher candidates or a teacher cadet instructor.

“Leading the Way” will honor the recipient with a $2,500 cash award, and the winner will become a member of a  group of mentor teacher leaders working to improve education through the Rex Institute at Winthrop.

The College of Education will recognize finalists and the overall award winner during a special event on Feb. 28, 2019.  The endowment was established by Jessie Williams Little  and her husband, retired physician John Little , who partnered with Winthrop’s Richard W. Riley College of Education