Golden Apple Award: Ashley Lyons, Westside Middle

ROCKY FACE, GA (WDEF) – The best teachers truly care about their students. That certainly describes Ashley Lyons. Her students at Westside Middle have a friend and mentor for life. That’s just one of the reasons she earned this week’s Golden Apple Award.

“Ms. Lyons is committed to Westside. She loves her kids. She loves teaching. She is at every afterschool event that she can be at to support her kids. And she just shows her passion for teaching everywhere she goes,”  Mollie Addis, 7th Grader, Westside Middle School said.

“I am just a, regular girl. I spend time with my family. My husband and I’ve been together since 2014. He’s also a teacher. We love to travel my kids so it’s just us,” Ashley Lyons, 7th Grade Math Teacher, Westside Middle School said.

“It’s so cool being in science room because she’s an excellent teacher and her teaching. She makes it so that way everyone can understand it,”  Mollie Addis, 7th Grader, Westside Middle School said.

“She explains it in like a more easier way than what other teachers would say,” Ashoynn Cassell, 7th Grader, Westside Middle School said.

“I love school growing up, always one of the nerds, but you know I saw kids struggling things like that and I just knew my heart‘s always been in wanting to be a teacher and even once I started college just… I started a different into nursing. But my heart was just always settle education,” Lyons said.

“Ms. Lyons  is crème de la crème. She means everything to this for her heart is issued. She’s student focused and there’s just not anyone around that will do more for their kids. And I’m really lucky to get adored with her,” Dr. Sarah Hicks, Special Ed Teacher, Westside Middle School says.

“Oh, goodness, my third grade teacher Ms. Scott at Pleasant Grove and Miss Logan my fourth grade teacher at Pleasant Grove. Ms. Greer who just passed away a few years ago. Um,  she was a solid point. She’s the main reason that I wanted to teach middle school. Because she was there through 6/7 and eighth grade just all over there for us,” Lyons said.

“She’s very determined she really wants to help her grow so we can actually pass,” Addison Colon, 7th Grader, Westside Middle School said.

Lyons continued, “I love these skin. It’s not just a job. That’s fine for summer. All I want them to be supported and know that somebody besides just their family and different friends care for them.”