SPHS’ Morrow named Social Studies Teacher of the Year

Spain Park High School’s Cheryl Morrow, a social studies teacher and instructional leader, has been named Alabama’s Outstanding Social Studies Teacher of the Year by the Social Studies Council of Alabama (SSCA).

Morrow becomes the first educator in Alabama to win two SSCA awards in the same year. In spring of this year, SSCA awarded Morrow the Excellence in Teaching Social Studies Award for the quality of her lesson plans.

“Students benefit greatly from experiencing robust, vibrant instruction in the social studies curriculum,” Morrow said. “An education built on a foundation rich in history, government, economics, phycology, sociology and geography is one that develops a skill set needed for future decisions that will invariably affect our nation and our world. Our ability to read, think, analyze and discern lies in our understanding of both historical and future events. Social studies is more than an equation that is exacting; it is a understanding of people and places that is necessarily and beautifully complex.”

Morrow was recognized at SSCA’s annual conference at Samford University on Oct. 14.

The Social Studies Council of Alabama is the state affiliate of the National Council for the Social Studies. It was formed in the 1960s to answer the growing need for organized curricular cooperation across the many disciplines recognized as the “social studies.” For more information, visit alsocialstudiesonline.org.