2005-2006 DHHS Teacher of the Year

Treva Randolph, a high school teacher at Spring Hill School at Dorothea Dix Hospital, has been chosen as the DHHS Teacher of the Year. Treva will move on in the statewide Teacher of the Year selection process, managed by the NC Department of Public Instruction, by completing a portfolio and participating in an interview.

Randolph, who has taught at Spring Hill School for the past 13 years, did not earn her teaching degree until she was 40 years old. She attributes her talent for teaching to tutoring her struggling peers while attending pubic school in her hometown of Granite Falls, NC, and being the defender of the students who were always “picked on” by others. However, Randolph admits that she never thought about being a teacher until others suggested it was her special gift. Randolph says that she believes that the students who attend school at Spring Hill come to her and her colleagues dismembered emotionally and spiritually and that it is the job of the school staff to help students remember who they are academically, socially, and emotionally. She believes that experiencing some academic success at Spring Hill School is one way to help students blossom and grow.

In addition to Randolph, the following teachers were chosen as the 2005-2006 Teacher of the Year at each school: Kimberly Lajzer, North Carolina School for the Deaf; Amy Campbell, Governor Morehead School; Janice Burris, Whitaker School; Joy Moore, Riverbend School at Cherry Hospital; Mona Shah, Bowling Green and Pine Valley Schools at John Umstead Hospital; Betty Joyner, Eastern North Carolina School for the Deaf, and Nicholas Phillips, Enola School at Broughton Hospital.

The NC Department of Public Instruction Teacher of the Year selection process seeks to recognize an outstanding teacher at every school in the state. Only teachers are eligible to participate, and the teachers are chosen by their peers at each school. Each school system, including DHHS, forms a committee whose job is to select one teacher from the candidates representing each school to represent the system. NCDPI chooses a regional Teacher of the Year from the seven regions of the state, and from those teachers, the state Teacher of the Year is chosen.

This is the second year that all nine DHHS school programs who serve school students from ages 5 to 21 have been eligible to participate in the NCDPI process.

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Last Modified: November 3, 2005