Ms. Tayla Coady readily joined the Clay Central/Everly family because it fulfilled her desire to teach somewhere small, local and family-oriented.

"I am most excited for all the great progress our CC/E students will make this school year," she said. "We are all so excited to have the students back in the building."

Coady said one of her favorite parts of the year is amphibious in nature.

"My class studies frogs mid-year and we get to do some fun science activities to go along with our nonfiction frog study," she said, also noting her class begins their study of multiplication, which will...