eCo Teacher of the Month Award

Edgewood Elementary School second grade teacher Laura Kapp was named eCO Credit Union’s August Teacher of the Month.

eCO Chief Operations Officer Kenny Minton and eCO Marketing Manager Melissa Reeves presented Kapp and her class with a $250 classroom scholarship. At the end of the year, she will compete with the other 11 monthly winners for the 2012 Teacher of the Year, who will receive a $1,000 classroom scholarship.

“Laura wants every child to have the best education possible. She is so creative and dedicated, and her students (and their parents) love her,” Scottie Vickery wrote in Kapp’s nomination letter.