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Georgia names 2018 teacher of the year

John R. Tibbetts (right), with Georgia Superintendent Richard Woods, when Tibbetts was named 2018 teacher of the year.
John R. Tibbetts (right), with Georgia Superintendent Richard Woods, when Tibbetts was named 2018 teacher of the year.
By Ty Tagami
June 13, 2017

John R. Tibbetts, an economics teacher from Worth County High School in Sylvester, is the 2018 Georgia Teacher of the Year.

The United States Military Academy graduate served 21 years as an officer in the U.S. Army, including service in Desert Storm. He also earned a master’s degree from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, and worked in the private sector before deciding he wanted to teach students.

"I feed off their energy and the excitement of learning something new," he told the Georgia Department of Education.

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Ty Tagami is a staff writer for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Since joining the newspaper in 2002, he has written about everything from hurricanes to homelessness. He has deep experience covering local government and education, and can often be found under the Gold Dome when lawmakers meet or in a school somewhere in the state.

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