Graham

Graham, AL · Education
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Calhoun Journal
Rome News-Tribune
Senior-less Model girls team still expecting big season
Even after 21 seasons of leading the same program at the same high school, there’s still a learning curve, and there’s still a chance to encounter first-time situations. For Sally Echols, veteran leader of Model High Lady Blue Devil basketball team, the 2026-27 season provides an opportunity for both. It will be the first time she has a varsity roster without a senior. So while there’s a lot of girls looking to her to learn about the game at this level, Echols will be learning how to deal with so much youth and inexperience. However, it’s not like nobody wearing the light blue and white uniforms will know anything about winning. In 2025-26, Model had basically a sophomore-senior roster that went 18-10, finished runner-up in its region tournament and advanced to the second round of the state playoffs. Some of those making up the now-junior class were significant contributors in both the frontcourt and the backcourt. “A lot of tradition here,” said Echols, who led the program to 10 region championships and had 14 teams win at least one game in the state tournament. That includes the 2009 squad that played for the championship. Echols could possibly write her own
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ahsaa.com
Old School Match-Up leads AHSAA Game of the Week in the First Round of the Playoffs
MONTGOMERY – (November 6, 2026) The second season for all teams, but the two that played Thursday (Orange Beach and Charles Henderson), begins Friday. The slate is wiped and every team has their destiny in front of them. The AHSAA Game of the Week highlights two of those schools in a showdown that should be intense. Muscles Shoals (6-3) is on the road at Oxford (7-2) in a first-round game broadcast statewide on WOTM-TV and Alabama Public Television tonight at 7:00 p.m.
Calhoun Journal
The Gadsden Times
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USA TODAY
Rough Draft Atlanta
northgwinnettvoice.com
For Buford Teacher of the Year Shannon Davis, progress begins with meeting students where they are
BUFORD, Ga. — In Shannon Davis’ classroom, progress does not always look like a worksheet completed, a test passed or a lesson mastered. Sometimes, it is a child who once responded to frustration with aggressive behavior learning to say “mad” or “help.”. Sometimes, it is...