Creekland Educator Named To Teacher Advisory Council

Creekland Middle School teacher Lindsay Bowley has been appointed to the State School Superintendent’s Teacher Advisory Council.

Bowley, an eighth-grade language arts teacher, is the Cherokee County School District’s 2013-14 Teacher of the Year and a Georgia Innovation in Teaching Competition winner.

The Council meets twice a year, and the fall meeting is on Oct. 27 at the Georgia Department of Education in Atlanta. it’s made up of teachers from across the state, including Georgia Teacher of the Year finalists, Milken Award teachers and other award-winning teachers who meet with State School Superintendent John D. Barge to discuss how decisions made at the state level affect them and their colleagues.

Topics of past discussion have included Georgia Performance Standards, Georgia Performance Standards Training, discipline, teacher mentoring, teacher induction, and parent involvement, according to the GDOE.

Bowley, who graduated from Etowah High School in Woodstock, has been teaching at Creekland for eight years and has taught Georgia history, language arts and social studies at the school.

She received a bachelor’s of science in middle grades education in 2007 from Kennesaw State University. She earned her masters of arts in middle grades language arts from Piedmont College in 2011.

(Photo: Lindsay Bowley. Credit: Cherokee County School District)