Fellow Profiles

Biography

Cherlyn Anderson is an eighth grade science teacher from Sandhills Middle School in Gaston, South Carolina. A National Board certified science teacher, Mrs. Anderson has been teaching in various capacities for 28 years. She has been an eighth grade science teacher at Sandhills MS for the last six, during which time she has served as facilitator for the Christa McAuliffe Fellowship Science and Literacy Study Group for the school district's 3-8th grade science teachers. She has also served as the Instructional Technology Coordinator for the district, acted as a mentor teacher to new faculty and even taught Language Arts and South Carolina History.

A state leader in the adoption of education technology, Mrs. Anderson spent the 1998-99 school year as the Milken Educator On-Loan to the SC Department of Education's Office of Technology, where she provided technical assistance to schools around the state by giving professional development workshops on technology integration, curriculum development, assessments, and grant writing.

Cherlyn Anderson has been recognized with many professional honors, including the Milken Family Foundation National Educator Award, and an Eleanor Roosevelt Teacher Fellowship for an all girls math and science program. She is also a NASA Honors Teacher and has participated in two Spaceward Bound expeditions to the Atacama Desert in Chile and the Mojave Desert in California. She was recognized by the South Carolina House of Representatives in a 1998 Proclamation of Honor. She has a degree in elementary education from The University of South Carolina (Coastal.)