Two South Mississippi Teachers Receive Presidential Awards

Four Mississippi teachers have earned national recognition as the recipients of the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching for 2017 and 2018. Two of them are from South Mississippi.

Shelby Miller, a teacher with Singing River Academy in the Pascagoula-Gautier School District, and Theresa Rose, a teacher at Stone Elementary in the Stone County School District, have just been announced this week as 2018 recipients of these presidential awards.

Shelby Miller has been an educator in the Pascagoula-Gautier School District for 10 years. She has taught fifth grade science at Singing River Academy for the past six years. She previously taught sixth grade science and language arts at Gautier Middle School.

Therasa “Terry” Rose has been an educator for more than 30 years, spending the last 11 years teaching fifth grade science at Stone Elementary School. Before that, she spent 18 years in second, third and fourth grades teaching all subjects, also at Stone Elementary School.

Nominations and winners of the Presidential Awards are facilitated by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the National Science Foundation.