25-03-2025
Breakfast Point Academy's Melinda Cowart excels in nurturing kids
PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. (WMBB) – Melinda Cowart has been teaching at Breakfast Point since the school was founded.
She has always felt her calling was to work with young children, and she undoubtedly excels in her role teaching kindergarten.
Her co-workers say one of the many reasons why Cowart is so successful is because of her attitude.
'She is so caring, she is just selfless, and I adore her so very much,' said Breakfast Point Academy Kindergarten Teacher Samantha Graham. 'She helps us, she helps my family. But beyond that, with the students and everything at school, she does the same thing.'
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Cowart knows what it takes to teach her students effectively.
'We really have to kind of step into that role of educator, but also very nurturing and making them feel comfortable here at school,' Cowart added. 'I love that we can do that.'
'She is always walking around, she's always helping all the children,' Graham went on to say. 'Her relationship with the kids is so sweet, it's like they're her own children.'
Cowart and Graham split the teaching responsibilities in their classroom with Cowart focusing on math, science, and social studies, and Graham handling English Language Arts.
They both love this new dynamic of co-teaching as it grants both teachers the opportunity to work and bond with more kids.
'Instead of having 17, 18, 19 kids, I have 33, 34, 35 children that I see throughout the day,' Cowart said. 'It's kind of special in that way that I actually touch not just my small, normal classroom, but I touch two sets of students.'
That is what makes Melinda Cowart a Class Act.
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