Golden Apple Award - Ava Hixson

Our Golden Apple winner this week is actually a teacher's assistant.

Here is the story of how Ava Hixson who teaches at Hixson is our deserving winner.

Children with developmental delays and other challenges.

For 20 years, ava hixson has been making a positive difference at hixson high school.

Her boundless compassion, patience and dedication earned ms. hixson's this week's golden apple award.

Natural sound: on behalf of foodcity and news channel 12, i'd like to present you the golden apple teacher award.

Congratulations!

Students let's celebrate.

Lakesha carson is the principal for the east lake academy of fine arts.

When asked about her colleague, ph nald atkins, principal car and then i went to a day care and did it.

He sent her school which i have learned and been here for over 20 years and three ms excel marks in my ram and she works with her last meeting you have special needs met to their classes and this gives them laxity of the vet's finding that she needs to be to yousafe place for them during the day just to give them a break from it, because it is a lot of hands on.

It's constant with parents.

And i think if they have a safe place with safe people to leave their children in care of that that makes the whole ordeal work out better.

Natural sound: how do weaver birds build their nest?

Do you remember what they do?

Ava: there are no two just the same just like most everything there is really no pattern.

You just have to come to work with them enough to figure out what their pros and cons are.

Maria: we can't, we couldn't do our jobs as teachers without people like miss hixson.

Natural sound: how many?

Go back and tell me how many.

Ava: from a hug to when they do get it.

But the hugs we can't do that right now at this time but they will reach out to you and you know that you have made an entrance.

That you have trained someone and something clicked in there, and that's always a great reward.

It's something that i think everybody should feel as far as teaching goes.

If you'd like to nominate a special teacher for the golden apple award, go to our web site, wdef dot com, look for the golden apple section, and fill out