Skyline Elementary special education teacher Kathryn Waters said she wasn’t expecting to be nominated as her school’s Outstanding Educator.
But Waters, who will retire at the end of this school year, was more than nominated. She was named Outstanding Educator for the Sedalia 200 School District at the meeting of the Sedalia Community Educators Association Tuesday at Smith-Cotton High School.
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