Newman wins Apple for the Teacher Award
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The award is given jointly by the state Department of Education, WSMV Channel 4, MTSU and Educators Credit Union. It seeks to honor teachers for outstanding community service, outstanding student achievement, innovative classroom programs and outstanding teacher achievement.
“I am humbled and honored to be chosen for this honor,” Newman said. “I love what I do. I love kids and I love watching them learn and getting to know them.”
Like most teachers who receive such honors, Newman said she doesn’t see how she got the award. “It’s hard to imagine how they singled me out,” she said. “There are so many good teachers in Warren County. We all do a really good job of teaching kids.”
She was nominated for the award by middle school principal Donna Trevathan and school system Federal Programs Director Priscilla Wanamaker.
The nomination form the two submitted said, “Marsha Newman is the quintessential teacher and human being. As a seventh-grade teacher, she understands not only each child’s need for the strongest education possible, but as importantly, she also understands the need of acceptance that all human beings must have to flourish, especially during the middle school years.”
In addition to her teaching duties, Newman also serves the middle school in other ways. She sponsors the student council, co-chairs the school improvement plan and in-service committees, and is a team leader for the “Pathfinders.” She is also the county-wide co-chair of the Warren County English Department and is an active member of the Tennessee Association of Middle Schools and the National Council of Teachers of English.
In winning the Apple for the Teacher Award, Newman will be honored, along with the rest of the winners, at an awards banquet later this year in Nashville. She will also be featured in video segments to be broadcast on WSMV sometime next spring.