Stephanie Ring is Commerce schools' teacher of the year

Ring first received the middle school Teacher of the Year award then moments later accepted the system-wide honor.

Ring is only in her fourth year at CMS, but is already producing results that merit attention, according to Bell.

Her students from 2007-2009 were among the highest achievers in the state on the science portion of the Criterion Referenced Competency Test (CRCT). In fact, her sixth grade students ranked no. 1 last year in the state in science system-to-system comparisons. (Bell noted that the CMS staff also produced state rankings of second in sixth grade reading, seventh in sixth grade language arts and ninth in sixth grade math in these system-to-system comparisons.)

“You can’t beat that,” Bell said.

Those winning Teacher of the Year honors at the school level were Rhonda Adams (Commerce Primary School), Wanda Dean (Commerce Elementary School) and Sara Massey (Commerce High School).