Feature: Social studies education alumna is a third-generation educator
This year, Mackenzie Pease (B.S.Ed. ’23, M.Ed. ’24), an alumna of the Mary Frances Early College of Education, began teaching sixth-grade social studies at Hightower Trail Middle School in Marietta, Georgia.
Although this is her first year teaching there, her introduction to the school came much earlier.
A Cobb County native, Pease attended middle school at Hightower Trail before returning as a teacher for the 2025-26 school year.
“It was a little weird in the beginning, coming back to the same school that I went to,” Pease said. “A few of my teachers are still here, so them seeing me in a coworker situation was definitely a little weird in the beginning, but it’s more comfortable now.”