Mississippi State Organization has members who are educators, specialists, administrators or other key women in education. Mississippi State Organization is comprised of three districts (Northern, Central and Southern) and 32 chapters. Conventions and district meetings are held to support the professional and personal growth of members and to focus attention on current educational issues and concerns.
2024 International Convention
National Harbor, MD
Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center
National Harbor, MD
Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center
Debbie Renfroe, President, and Carol Rigby, Bylaws & Standing Rules Chair, represented MSO.
Recognizing MSO Members
Congratulations to Beth McKay, Pi Chapter!
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Beth's article “Spilling the Tea! Ideas for Building Relationships in DKG” has been selected for inclusion in the 2024, Volume 90-4 issue of The Delta Kappa Gamma Bulletin.
Beth is a veteran English teacher of 18 years. In 2022, she became a National Board Certified Teacher. She serves as president of Pi Chapter and is a member of MSO’s Headquarters Committee. In addition, Beth is a 2023 graduate of MSO’s Leadership Management Seminar. Download the 2024 Collegial Exchange 90-4. |
Shauna Waters Chosen Mississippi's Teacher of the Year!
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Shauna Waters, Gamma Chapter, has been a teacher since 2001. She has taught in Indiana University’s Intensive English program, in the Comparative Cultures department of Aichi University in Toyohashi, Japan, and is currently the dual-enrollment English Composition I instructor, AP English Literature and Composition teacher, Tech Champion, Academic Team sponsor, Tech Champion, newspaper adviser, and National Honor Society adviser at West Lauderdale High School in Collinsville, Mississippi. From 2004 to 2016, she taught at Meridian High School in Meridian, Mississippi. She has an undergraduate degree from MSU in English with a minor in Spanish and a Master’s in TESOL and Applied Linguistics from Indiana University. She has been selected as a Mississippi STAR Teacher seven times, as a US Presidential Scholar Distinguished
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Teacher, and as a Yale Educator. She has served as a presenter for staff development sessions for Scott County Schools and Meridian High School on topics related to ELL/ESL and webpage
design for teachers, has led summer seminars for EMCED on strategies for teaching English, has taught Spanish for Nurses for Leake Memorial Hospital in Carthage, and was selected as a Reader for the Advanced Placement English Literature and Composition national exam in 2010, 2011, and 2014 - 2024. She traveled to Brazil as a fellow in the 2011-2012 cohort of the US State Department/IREX Teachers for Global Classrooms program, was a member of the 2013 National Endowment for he Humanities/Primary Source Summer Institute in Turkey on the history and legacy of the Ottoman Empire, and was a participant in the 2015 Folger Shakespeare Library Teaching Shakespeare Institute Summer Academy. She is a Google Levels 1 and 2 Certified Educator, an Apple Teacher, and a Canvas Certified Educator. She also enjoys writing poetry and has won prizes in several competitions including the Southeastern Literary Festival, the Mississippi State Literary Competition, and the MCC Literary Competition. In her rare spare time, she enjoys traveling, messing about with her camera or her fountain pens, reading things not required for teaching, and spending time with the assorted cats and dogs who have adopted her.
design for teachers, has led summer seminars for EMCED on strategies for teaching English, has taught Spanish for Nurses for Leake Memorial Hospital in Carthage, and was selected as a Reader for the Advanced Placement English Literature and Composition national exam in 2010, 2011, and 2014 - 2024. She traveled to Brazil as a fellow in the 2011-2012 cohort of the US State Department/IREX Teachers for Global Classrooms program, was a member of the 2013 National Endowment for he Humanities/Primary Source Summer Institute in Turkey on the history and legacy of the Ottoman Empire, and was a participant in the 2015 Folger Shakespeare Library Teaching Shakespeare Institute Summer Academy. She is a Google Levels 1 and 2 Certified Educator, an Apple Teacher, and a Canvas Certified Educator. She also enjoys writing poetry and has won prizes in several competitions including the Southeastern Literary Festival, the Mississippi State Literary Competition, and the MCC Literary Competition. In her rare spare time, she enjoys traveling, messing about with her camera or her fountain pens, reading things not required for teaching, and spending time with the assorted cats and dogs who have adopted her.
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