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ABSS Teacher of the Year Kelly Poquette with husband Jonathan.
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Kelly Poquette, Alamance-Burlington School System’s 2020-21 Teacher of the Year, is now also the Piedmont-Triad Teacher of the year and in the running for the state title.
Poquette teaches music at E. M. Yoder and Pleasant Grove elementary schools. While she has been teaching for 16 years, she told the Times-News this summer when she was named the district TOY that she only came to North Carolina in 2019. So she didn’t even have a full year to get used to ABSS before the COVID-19 pandemic turned everything on its ear.
The Piedmont-Triad region also includes Davidson and Randolph county schools, Asheboro, Lexington and Thomasville city schools and districts in Caswell, Davie, Forsyth, Guilford, Rockingham, Stokes, Surry and Yadkin counties.
She will now compete with teachers from seven other regions and the state’s charter schools for North Carolina Teacher of the Year, who will be named in the spring.
Previous Alamance County teachers named NCTOY include:
Bryan “Freebird” McKinney 2018;
Tyronna Hooker 2011;
Donna Oliver taught in the old Burlington City Schools district and won NCTOY in 1986 and was also a national teacher of the year finalist;
Linda Lee, BCS, 1980.
Asheboro City Schools’ Penelope Sue Smith was the 1981 state Teacher of the Year.
