Golden Apple Award: Ashlanett Sanders, The Howard School
CHATTANOOGA, TN (WDEF) – A good teacher needs to be caring, creative and nurturing.
Ashlanett Sanders checks all those boxes and many more.
She has a gift for helping her Howard High School students reach their full potential, and that earned her this week’s Golden Apple Award.
“Hello, hello everybody. Hi, hi. Good morning hey good how are you? On behalf of Food City and news Channel 12, we present you the amazing Golden Apple teacher award for this week!! And Miss Sanders I would also like to present to you this certificate. Golden Apple Award! Woo!!!”
“Ashlanett Sanders is the quint cenal it’s educator. Um anytime there’s a need um someone to just show up someone to be around for the kids. She is always here. She has a heart of gold just like that Golden Apple award. She will give you the last off her back. Um she’s just going to she’s so supportive of us. And we just love having her here at The Howard School,” said Dr. LeAndrea Ware, Executive Principal at The Howard School.
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“So Ashlanett Sanders, I’m a teacher. Um I love this I love the students that I get to serve. I am… a teacher full of exuberance and excitement. And I am a loud teacher. I embody every bit of my personality,” said Ashlanett Sanders, Exceptional Education Teacher at The Howard School.
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“I Love going in and providing supports to other uh to students in the classroom. Um and honestly I I thought I would be an English teacher. Uh that was what I went to college for undergrad for. However I some life happened and… I found I found out that I love this more along the way. And, and I get to do that anyway,” said Sanders.
“It’s awesome working with her. She works really well with the kids. She keep them hyped and educated at the same time. So it’s wonderful working with her. I’ve been working with her probably like the last two and a half three years. So it’s awesome,” said Britanee Williams, a Teacher’s Assistant at The Howard School.
“It’s incredibly rewarding like on a day-to-day basis you know. On a day-to-day basis sometimes it’s hard to see the consistent the effect that you’re making. But once you look back, sometimes you look back and think everything is different. And so you look at a person and you say, “oh man I I see, how much you’ve changed. I see how much you’ve grown”. And and also I I love it when students um, I get some I get notes from students. And they say thank you for this thing. And I’m like, I didn’t know that I made such an impact on you. And that, and that’s very impactful as well. So it’s, it’s, I feel like it’s a blessing to be able to um to be able to come into the lives of young people and mold them. Because like those people are going to take the those people are going to take the torches and they’re going to run with them long after you’re gone. So they’re, they’re our Legacy,” said Sanders.
