School District Celebrates Educators With Banquet

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Canton, GA -- The Cherokee County School District recently honored outstanding educators with an elegant dinner, tributes and gifts at the CCSD 2016 Teacher of the Year Recognition Banquet.

The annual dinner for the district-wide winner and school-level Teachers of the Year was co-hosted by Credit Union of Georgia and Northside Hospital-Cherokee on Dec. 10, 2015, at the Northside Hospital-Cherokee Conference Center in Canton.

Cherokee County Superintendent of Schools Dr. Frank Petruzielo congratulated the district’s 2016 Teacher of the Year Jeremy Law of Teasley Middle School, as well as all school-level winners during the event, which also was attended by all school principals, the Superintendent’s Cabinet and members of the Cherokee County School Board.

“Bringing hope to every child he teaches is more than a goal for Teasley Middle School special education teacher Jeremy Law. It’s his mission. It’s his calling. It’s his life,” Dr. Petruzielo said in his introduction of Law, who teaches special education at Teasley and coaches football at Sequoyah High School. “And it’s one of the many reasons that his peers hold him in such high regard and why our panel of community leaders selected him as our school district’s Teacher of the Year.”

Dr. Petruzielo then introduced Jon Oliver, one of Law’s former students, who spoke about how Law encouraged him to never give up on himself. Law in his speech spoke about his desire to make a difference in the lives of his students, noting how many face significant challenges beyond their control such as poverty.

He also congratulated all of the school-level Teachers of the Year in attendance for their accomplishments and passion for the profession.

Dr. Petruzielo presented gifts to all of the school Teacher of the Year winners, including a $100 Visa Gift Card, a portrait by Lifetouch Portrait Studio and an engraved plaque and a tote bag filled with supplies and gifts.

Law additionally received: an Envy x350 Laptop computer from Hewlett Packard, XPS 13 Laptop Computer from Dell, $500 gift card and gift basket from Kroger; $500 Visa gift card from the Cherokee County Educational Foundation; iPad Mini 16GB from Southern Computer Warehouse; Kindle Fire HD from CommScope; $100 Visa gift card from Mission Critical Systems; $125 Amazon gift card from Think Through Math; $100 Amazon gift card from Follett; $100 Amazon gift card from The Travel Store; and gifts including a messenger bag, stainless steel travel mug, leather journal and wine.

Sponsors who made all of these gifts possible are: Presenting Sponsors, Credit Union of Georgia and Northside Hospital-Cherokee; Gold Sponsors, Dell, Fforg, Inc., Hewlett Packard, Lifetouch Portrait Studio, Poole’s Insulation; Silver Sponsors, Cobb EMC, Path & Post - a Becky Babcock Team, Pearson, Quia; Bronze Sponsors, Chick-fil-A, Roly Poly; Friends of CCSD Sponsors, Cherokee County Council PTA, Knovation, Multimedia Systems and State Farm, Jan Rooney Agency.

“Teachers like you are the heroes of our country and certainly our community,” Dr. Petruzielo told the room full of honorees. “It is because of our dedicated teachers, like those here tonight, that we have become a leading school system in Georgia and the Nation.”

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Photo 1: Superintendent of Schools Dr. Frank R. Petruzielo, left, congratulates Cherokee County School District 2016 Teacher of the Year Jeremy Law, a special education teacher at Teasley Middle School, who also coaches football at Sequoyah HS.
Photo 2: The Cherokee County School Board and Cherokee County Superintendent of Schools Dr. Frank R. Petruzielo, front row center, pose for a commemorative photo with Cherokee County School District 2016 Teacher of the Year Jeremy Law, seated to the left of the Superintendent, and school-level winners at the annual Teacher of the Year Recognition Banquet.
Photo credits: LifeTouch Portrait Studio