Woodstock Teacher Brings 17 Years of Classroom Experience to CCSD's New Superintendent Advisory Council

The 17-year educator brings experience across kindergarten through fifth grade — including gifted, ESOL, and early intervention programs — to a newly formed district advisory body

Suzy Boehmer has spent 17 years figuring out what works for kids — in kindergarten classrooms, in gifted programs, in co-taught settings, in English language learning environments. Now, the Woodstock Elementary fifth-grade teacher has been selected to bring that hard-won perspective to the Cherokee County School District's newly formed Superintendent's Teacher Advisory Council, a body created to give working educators a direct voice in district-level decisions.

It's a role that fits someone who has, by any measure, seen the full range of what elementary school can look like. Boehmer has taught every grade level from kindergarten through fifth grade across co-taught, Early Intervention Program, self-contained, Gifted, and English to Speakers of Other Languages settings — a combination of experience that is uncommon even among veteran teachers.

Her path to the classroom traces back to a single third-grade memory. "My third-grade teacher, Mrs. Blalock. She read Roald Dahl novels to us in funny voices and made me fall in love with reading. She loved her students and made me want to be a teacher," Boehmer said. It's the kind of origin story that reveals something about how she runs her own classroom: Boehmer has built a café-style environment designed to feel welcoming rather than institutional, where mistakes are treated not as failures but as natural steps in the learning process — provided students are willing to persevere and try again.

That emphasis on psychological safety and belonging isn't incidental. It's the foundation of her classroom culture, and it's the kind of ground-level insight the Superintendent's Teacher Advisory Council was created to surface.

Woodstock Elementary, situated on Arnold Mill Road in the heart of Woodstock, serves students in pre-K through fifth grade and draws from one of the fastest-growing communities in Cherokee County. As the district manages that growth — new neighborhoods, shifting enrollment, evolving student needs — the council represents an effort to ensure that the teachers closest to those changes have a seat at the table. Boehmer's selection places a local voice in that conversation.

The full roster of council members is available on the Cherokee County School District's website. CCSD plans to introduce each member to the broader community through a continuing series of profiles in the weeks ahead.

For families at Woodstock Elementary and across the district, the practical meaning is straightforward: when teachers share feedback with superintendent leadership, someone who has stood in a Woodstock classroom for nearly two decades will be among them.