Alabama Teacher of the Year Resigns– The Backstory, Part III
Ann Marie Corgill
On October 30, 2015, the 2014-15 Alabama Teacher of the Year, Ann Marie Corgill, abruptly resigned from teaching at Birmingham City Schools after a taxing ordeal in the first two months of the 2015-16 school year.
I had the privilege of interviewing Corgill in person for several hours on November 20, 2015. Based on that interview, I have already written two posts, one focused on how Corgill’s resignation became public, and another detailing the fiasco that resulted in her October 2015 resignation.
In this third post of the series, I offer the detailed and candid interview excerpt on Corgill’s becoming 2014-15 Alabama Teacher of the Year– and a 2014-15 National Teacher of the Year finalist.
During the course of our extensive conversation, the issue of teacher bullying emerged as a theme. Even though this issue was interwoven into our discussion of Corgill’s experience as Teacher of the Year, I have chosen to omit such discussion in this post and instead save it for a later post. Thus, Part III details the specifics of Corgill’s becoming Teacher of the Year.
As was true of Part II, in this post, Corgill’s words are indented, and my comments Alabama Teacher of the Year Resigns– The Backstory, Part III | deutsch29: