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Once a struggling student, Sissy Elliott now Gainesville's Teacher of the Year
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Centennial Arts Academy first-grader Jack Wingo reads to teacher Sissy Elliott Dec. 12, 2017. Elliott was named the Gainesville City Schools Teacher of the Year for 2018-19. - photo by Scott Rogers
Sissy Elliott, a first-grade teacher at Centennial Arts Academy, gets choked up just thinking about the honor recently bestowed on her. That’s because school was “terribly hard” for her as a young girl.