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    Kathryn McGahey Wilkerson
     
    Mrs. Wilkerson

    TEACHER OF THE YEAR, 2020, HILLCREST HIGH SCHOOL

    kwilkerson@tcss.net

     
       Phone: 342-2800
     
    Spanish 1 and English
     Grades 9-12
     
     
     
     
    #gopats
     
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    Subjects Taught
     
    Spanish 1 and English
    Education

    Bachelor of Science in Secondary Education (6-12); English/Spanish - The University of Alabama, 1991

    Certification: Alabama Class B - Highly Qualified-English/Spanish

    Graduate of Central High School, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 1986

     
    Experience

    Hillcrest High School  1997- to present. I'm in my 23rd year of teaching!

    Served as Foreign Language Department Chair

    Sponsor the Interact Club in association with the Rotary Club

    Served as yearbook sponsor

    Served as homecoming co-chair

    Served as freshman cheerleading coach and assisted with varsity cheerleading

    Served on beauty walk, prom, budget, and awards day committees

    Facilitated school-wide book study on differentiation

    Served as textbook adoption committee chair for Foreign Language

    Assisted in development of implementation of Hillcrest High School's Code of Academic Honor and Itegrity
    Bio 
    I've actually been teaching since I was five, if you count all those hours I pretended to be a teacher when I was "playing school." I've known since those days in the playroom, with the dolls lined up against the wall serving as my students, that I would be a teacher. My mom taught kindergarten, and she inspired me. 
     
    I graduated from Central High School, and, as a lot of kids from Tuscaloosa do, I headed right down the street to the University of Alabama. ROLL TIDE!!  
     
    After graduation, I taught for one semester at Hillcrest. My family moved away for seven years. I rejoined the Hillcrest family in 1997, and I've been here since. In my years at HHS, I've taught speech, English 9, 10, 12 (both regular and advanced), and Spanish I and II.