Patrick Searcy, a teacher at Falkland Elementary School, has been named Pitt County Schools’ Employee of the Month for January.

Along with teaching fifth grade, Searcy is grade level chairman, SIT chairman and a mentor. He is often described as a data-driven teacher, which helps push his students as well as other teachers to compete with one another.

A nomination letter for Searcy said, “I looked up to him as a leader of our school and did my best to emulate the direction he took with instruction and with the relationships he had with our fellow colleagues.”

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