James Davis

2007 Teacher Winner

School: Venetian Hills Elementary School, Fifth-Grade
Project: “Can a Radius Expand”—”Scholars Experience Georgia Role Models”

Producing student writers who emerge as flourishing authors was a goal of his project, where students would read and write about historical figures. He took his students to the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center, the Carter Center and Morehouse College to learn about three important Georgia role models.