SHERYL GREEN

Sheryl Green is a Georgia girl, born and raised in Conyers, Georgia.  She graduated from High Point University in North Carolina with her B.A. degree in English (1995).  She played soccer for High Point and was recipient of the Tobias Scholar Athlete Award, the highest female athlete award on campus.  She also was an All American athlete, MVP of her team her senior year, and graduated with All University Honors and Summa Cum Laude with a 4.0 cumulative GPA.  She went on to receive her Masters in Arts and Teaching from Lander University in Greenwood, SC (1999) and her Education Specialist Degree from Piedmont College in Demorest, Georgia (2012).

 

She has been blessed to have experienced varied teaching opportunities in all types of schools imaginable, from an international school in Vienna, Austria, to an elementary school in a small town in rural South Carolina, to a huge urban school in Charlotte, North Carolina, to most currently, an urban, Title I school in Columbus, Georgia.  Sheryl has taught the full gamut of English courses, but her heart leans to the two ends of the teaching spectrum: challenging the gifted student and empowering the struggling one.  She is currently serving as the ELA Instructional Coach for Jordan Vocational High School in Columbus.  Outside the classroom, she is a life-long soccer coach and has dabbled in coaching middle school girls basketball, high school golf, and college cheerleading.  In the evenings, Sheryl teaches ENGL 1101 and ENGL 1102 at nearby Columbus State University.  All of her many adventures and life experiences help make her an effective teacher in the classroom, as well as an efficient and helpful instructional coach to her peers.

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In 2015, Sheryl was honored by the Muscogee Educational Excellence Foundation and the Muscogee County School District to represent 56 schools as the District Teacher of the Year.  Sheryl used this platform to serve as a community spokesperson to promote the exciting world of education across the region.  She attended the Project Zero Classroom at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, is serving her District as a Professional Development facilitator, been the keynote speaker at several regional education conferences, and has hosted Close Reading and Standards Based Grading seminars both within the District and across the State of Georgia.     

 

In addition, Sheryl writes a weekly educational column for the regional newspaper, The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, and is the author of Beyond the Classroom: Speaking Truth and Life into Kids (2016) and Up Close and Personal with Reading: A Not-so-Scary Tool for Teaching for Understanding (2018).  When she is not working to promote literacy or her profession, Sheryl is nestled in her RV, exploring the countryside, riding her bike on the River Walk, or hiking in the woods.