Walker Gamble Elementary School fourth-grade math and science teacher Betsy Watts was selected recently as a Pee Dee Education Center Teacher of the Year for March, according to WBTW Channel 13.
A teacher for 27 years, this is her fourth year at the New Zion school.
"For it to be my first year teaching in a fourth-grade classroom and for them to give me this honor, I was just honored," Watts told the TV station. "I was just speechless."
Watts said she tries to instill in her students that, no matter what it is, they will achieve it if they continually work at it a little bit at a time.
She said her greatest moments with her students are the personal relationships that go above and beyond the academics.
Bishopville Primary School first-grade teacher Tracey Tate was also named a Teacher of the Year for March. She has spent her 23-year career in Lee County, where she was born and raised.
