Jimmy Casas Appreciated this final episode of 2024! 🎉 Thank you for the continuous inspiration and encouragement this year. Connecting with you was a highlight of my career and others at Harold E. Winkler Middle School! Looking forward to the new changes in 2025! 👏

6th grade students Harold E. Winkler Middle School are closing out Book Club by analyzing character change and the contributing factors! I am so proud of the hard work and dedication our students have put into their final projects!

What we needed this morning! Thank you David James !👏🏼

Proud of my homeroom student who received the IB Attribute Award in January for being- Balanced! ✨ #wolvesrising

I cannot stress how important staff and student shoutouts are to the culture of a school! Harold E. Winkler Middle School we try to celebrate students and staff daily! Thankful for my Culture Committee friends who help keep this going! Danielle Pannell

You absolutely have to have a team of teachers that bring the positivity and culture building mentality every single day! Keep it up! #WolvesRising🐺 I mean...#MSMatters2025 ☺️

Expand my network and bring home all the resources to Harold E. Winkler Middle School !!🐺 #MSMatters2025

The most useful part of conferences is how does it impact student achievement! Looking forward to hearing about the impact you have back at Harold E. Winkler Middle School! 👊 #MSMatters2025

Inspiring 3 days at NCMLE 'Moving the Middle Forward' Conference! Excited to share what I learned! 😊🐺✨ #MSMatters2025

I just love them. 🤍🐺 Thankful for a group of girls who do whatever they can to put a smile on someone else’s face!

The 'Words on the Wall' book cohort had their last discussion meeting this morning. 📚🤝 We walked the halls of Harold E. Winkler Middle School and reflected on the message being portrayed literally and emotionally to students. 🤔 Are our words matching the values we share as a staff? 🔥

Proud of my homeroom student who received the IB Attribute for the month of March: Risk-Taker! 🐺⭐️ #wolvesrising

I write about students rising to high expectations in #CultureFirstClassrooms with Darrin M Peppard Ed.D. #RoadToAwesome and Katie Kinder from OKC. 📈 Another Charleston, S.C. overnight field trip in the 📚 for the 7th grade students of Harold E. Winkler Middle School! 🐠☀️🚌 “It’s not an accident…”

I brag about these two wonderful student-athletes daily! Their work ethic and commitment to school and athletics is commendable, but what I love most is their heart! I would give them my Coach’s Award on repeat forever if I could! ❤️📣🐺

Year four is complete! ✔️ What a year full of so much learning and growth! I closed out the 2024-2025 school year by being named Cabarrus Co. Schools Teacher of the Year! So incredibly grateful for this recognition and I cannot wait to represent our school district! 🐺✨

Hoping to get to experience NCMLE 2026!

Excited for another year Harold E. Winkler Middle School ! Come work with me & our EC Department!

The ‘25-‘26 HWMS School Leadership Team came together this week to celebrate and plan for the upcoming school year. 👏📈 Thank you to this committed group for their work this week and beyond! 🙏 #OnePack🐺