Lorraine Aiken

Johnson has worked in the Coweta system since 1984. She has previously

been named TOTY at Arnco-Sargent and Central Middle.

Arnall Principal

Charles Smith described Johnson as a teacher who is never off duty, giving

her the ultimate compliment of being one whom he wants to teach his own

child.

In her remarks

to the assembly, Johnson spoke highly of the support system for teachers

in Coweta County. She spoke highly of her former principals and fellow

teachers, citing a specific example of her first principal, now associate

Superintendent Winston Dowdell, actually helping her work with students

in her classroom during her first year.

Johnson now

enters the competition for state teacher of the year and joins a long

line of former Coweta TOTYs, two of whom have gone on to become Georgia

Teacher of the Year, and many others who have reached the semifinalist

and finalist level.