Dr. Sheila Reed  

      Dr. Sheila Reed graduated with her Doctorate in English in 1994 from the University of Georgia. She began her teaching career at Paulding County High School in 1973 where she taught English and Journalism until 1980. She then moved on to teach at the at University of Georgia and Mt. Zion High School until eventually arriving at Bowdon High School in 1991 where she teaches British Literature and AP Literature and Composition to seniors and AP Language Composition to juniors.    

     Over the course of the past nineteen years she has served Carroll County Schools, she has earned Gifted and Teacher Support Specialist endorsements. In May of 2006 she graduated from Netcourse Instructional Methodologies offered by Virtual High School. In June of 2009, she participated in the Cherokee Rose Writing Project at West Georgia State University, an intensive reading, writing and discussion program for teachers interested in implementing writing successfully in their classrooms.   

    In addition, Dr. Reed directs the one-act play team each year and has been the coach for the boys' and girls' tennis team for the past five years where they have placed in the first round of state play-offs four of the past five seasons.     

    Her professional activities have included teaching an online course for potential Advanced Placement teachers for Northwest RESA called "Educating the Able Learner".  She was one of four educators who wrote the ELA Georgia Performance Standards for high school while serving on the Carroll County Curriculum Committee which designed curriculum for those standards. This year makes the third time she has been selected as Teacher of the Year as well as being honored as Star Teacher in 2000 and 2004. 

    Dr. Reed is an active member of Bowdon  Baptist  Church where she teaches Sunday school classes and serves on various committees.