Lori Blakely was selected by her peers as Shayne Elementary's 2006-2007 Teacher of the Year. She touches all the students and teachers at Shayne by serving as a driving force in the Reading curriculum.
Mrs. Blakely has been the Reading Specialist at Shayne for the past 2 years. She came from Hattie Cotton Elementary, where she also served as Reading Specialist, a Resource Teacher, and a Language-based classroom teacher for students with severe Language impairments. The 6 years before Hattie Cotton, she was a Resource teacher at Dupont Elementary where she taught reading to students from Kindergarten through Sixth Grade. She began her teaching career at Maplewood High School teaching Reading and English to ninth and tenth grades.
Her degree is in Special Education from Greensboro College in North Carolina. She began her teaching career fifteen years later after re-certifying her teaching certificate at Tennessee State University.
Throughout the years, she has been actively working with children of all ages and abilities. Personally and professionally, she has been an advocate for teachers and students with special needs. This background is the driving force for her present position. She not only assists the teachers in their teaching of critical reading strategies, but works daily with children from Kindergarten through Fourth grades with reading difficulties. She is a voracious reader and easily excites students and teachers to have the same love for reading.
Beverly Vannoy, Guidance Counselor, was chosen as the first Teacher of the Year at Shayne Elementary School. She is a native Nashvillian and earned her Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees at Trevecca Nazarene College. She taught second, third and fourth grades for 16 years and has been a counselor for 10 years. She is a violence prevention and conflict resolution trainer for Second Step and Crisis Prevention Intervention in Metro Schools and surrounding counties. She loves children and enjoys supporting and encouraging them to do well. She believes that a comprehensive guidance program will assist in preparing our children to be solid, productive citizens.
