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How to Nominate Your Top Teacher

6:54 PM, Aug 31, 2011

Junior Journalist, Logan Arnold learns how you can nominate your favorite teacher for My Teacher is Tops, in this week's Junior Journalist Report.

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Mrs. Cheryl Amerson Wins My Teacher is Tops

5:31 PM, Mar 20, 2013

One Bibb County second grade teacher combines her love of art and the importance of recycling in her lessons.
Junior Journalist Ivia Rollins takes us to King-Danforth Elementary to surprise Mrs. Cheryl Amerson.

My Teacher is Tops - Yolunda Shinholster

7:34 PM, Mar 6, 2013

Yolunda Shinholster says she was speechless when 13WMAZ junior journalist Hillary Fobbs-Glenn came into her classroom to tell her she was this week's "My Teacher is Tops", but her students weren't surprised at all.

My Teacher Is Tops: Renada Woodley

9:04 PM, Feb 27, 2013

This week's My Teacher is Tops winner is a Twiggs County Middle school math teacher who brings the winning formula of discipline and fun to the classroom.

My Teacher is Tops: Brandy Woods

9:01 PM, Feb 20, 2013

A fifth grade teacher at T.G. Scott is this week's 'My Teacher is Tops' award winner.

My Teacher is Tops: Letitia Daly

8:01 PM, Feb 6, 2013

Letitia Daly, a teacher at Middle Georgia Christian School for the last 9 years, is this week's "My Teacher is Tops" winner.

Former Junior Journalist Sings Her Way to Hollywood

2:49 PM, Jan 24, 2013

Warner Robins native Summer Cunningham may have sung her way to the Hollywood round of "American Idol" on national television, but Central Georgia audiences first met the budding star as a Junior Journalist on 13WMAZ.

My Teacher is Tops - Deborah Green

8:01 PM, Jan 23, 2013

Deborah Green, a Montezuma native and 6th grade teacher at Macon County Middle School is this week's "My Teacher is Tops" winner.

My Teacher is Tops: Kevin Holt

8:51 PM, Jan 16, 2013

My Teacher is Tops: Wilcox County Elementary

8:40 AM, Jan 10, 2013

Wilcox County Elementary's second grade teacher, Mrs. Tracy Mullis, is this week's My Teacher is Tops winner.

My Teacher is Tops: Wilkinson County Elementary School

4:54 PM, Dec 19, 2012

Wilkinson County Elementary School's third grade teacher, Ms. Katherine Neal, is this week's My Teacher is Tops.

My Teacher is Tops: Donna Spillers

9:05 AM, Dec 13, 2012

Donna Spillers has taught school for 25 years, and she works hard to make a difference in the lives of her students.

My Teacher Is Tops: Daniel Carpenter

8:02 PM, Dec 5, 2012

This week's my teacher is tops winner is a math teacher at T.G. Scott Elementary school that brings math into the real lives of students. 

My Teacher is Tops: Christina Andrews

10:08 AM, Nov 29, 2012

A fourth grade teacher from Sandersville uses her history lessons to give her students a brighter future.

My Teacher is Tops: North Dodge Elementary

7:32 PM, Oct 31, 2012

Ms. Pam Gilbert, a 4th grade teacher at North Dodge Elementary, is this week's My Teacher is Tops winner.

My Teacher Is Tops: Terri Dykes

7:59 AM, Oct 18, 2012

This week's My Teacher Is Tops winner is a Twiggs Academy teacher that knows how to explain a variety of subjects from science to history. But students said it's her lessons on kindness that they will take with them in the future. 

My Teacher Is Tops: Beverly Williams

8:50 AM, Oct 11, 2012

This week's My Teacher Is Tops winner is Beverly Williams. She is a middle school math teacher and students said that she knows how to make arithmetic fun. 

My Teacher is Tops: Oak Hill Middle School

10:55 PM, Oct 3, 2012

Chuck Claxton, the 7th grade life science teacher at Oakhill Middle School, doesn't have to wish any longer. He's this week's My Teacher is Tops winner.

Rapping Biology Teacher Wins "My Teacher is Tops"

11:46 AM, Sep 27, 2012

Step inside Candida Fielding's 9th grade biology class at Northside High School in Warner Robins, and you'll see anything from balloons, to games, to a rap about fluctuation in populations.

My Teacher is Tops: Rutland Middle

8:30 AM, Sep 13, 2012

School is back in session, and so is our My Teacher is Tops program.

Junior Journalist, Logan Arnold went to Rutland Middle School where he surprised the first top teacher for this school year.

Smithsonian Exhibit Coming To Perry Saturday

8:38 AM, Sep 6, 2012

New Harmonies, a traveling music exhibit from the Smithsonian in Washington D.C., will be in Perry. The exhibit will focus on some of the early traditions of American music.

Woman Charged in Peach Co. for Daughter's Methadone Death

 

Traci Asberry was arrested as a fugitive Monday in Lexington, Ky., and faces charges in the December 2010 death of her daughter, Hannah Bayne, at a Peach County hotel.

 

 

 

7:41 PM, May 21, 2013

Murder Suspect, Two Others Arrested in Fatal Milledgeville Shooting

Milledgeville police have arrested three people in connection with a fatal shooting outside a rap concert early Saturday.

10:40 AM, May 21, 2013

Laurens Co. School Board Tables Controversial Changes

An email intended for school officials started to make the rounds in the community because of "drastic" changes in the start time for their schools.

11:26 AM, May 21, 2013

Murder Suspect Frank Reeves Back in Jail

Reeves turn himself in to the Bibb County jail Monday morning, says DA David Cooke.

9:48 AM, May 21, 2013

Officials Lower Okla. Death Toll; Search Continues

The grim work of search, rescue and recovery spun into a second day Tuesday in central Oklahoma after a massive and murderous tornado blasted through the area, killing at least 24 people, flattening neighborhoods and destroying two elementary schools.

9:48 AM, May 21, 2013

Houston Sheriff Supports Deputy in Shooting

Sheriff Cullen Talton today identified a deputy who wounded  a suspect who rammed two police cruisers.

3:29 PM, May 20, 2013

Massive Tornado Flattens Oklahoma Town

The Oklahoma City Police Department confirmed seven children died at the Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Oklahoma.

8:46 PM, May 20, 2013

Man Killed in DUI Wreck in Monroe County

According to the Monroe County Sheriff's office, Michael Wayne Lindler, 56, was partially ejected from the passenger window of a 1999 Chevy Silverado pickup.

3:51 PM, May 21, 2013

Tenn. Bystander Could Face Prison for Role in Hit-and-Run

Man being charged along with suspects in accident that killed two people faces prison.

8:15 AM, May 21, 2013

Complete Bragg Jam Lineup Announced

The downtown Macon concert crawl features 56 bands at various venues.

11:06 AM, May 21, 2013

Nominate Your Top Teacher:

Send a letter to:
My Teacher is Tops
13WMAZ
1314 Gray Highway
Macon, GA 31211

Letters must be handwritten and, remember, spelling and neatness counts!

JJ

Meet the Junior Journalists

Logan Arnold Maggie Brewer Hillary Fobbs-Glenn Ivia Rollins James Scott Kayla Singletary Jordan Thomas Reese Waters Hannah Williamson
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