Tribute to Teachers: Davie Towbin has energy to share at G. Holmes Braddock High

SOUTHWEST MIAMI-DADE, Fla. ā€“ Davie Towbin is a Jill of all trades when it comes to educating high school students. Sheā€™s been doing it for more than 20 years with passion and energy to spare.

Towbin is one of five outstanding South Florida educators chosen in Local 10ā€²s Tribute to Teachers Award for 2023.

C. Holmes Braddock Highā€™s band, cheerleaders, faculty and students put on a special show when Local 10 showed up to present her with her award.

Towbin was also the schoolā€™s 2018 Teacher of the Year and a person of many talents. She is Braddockā€™s virtual studies facilitator, the schoolā€™s environmental advocate, she oversees the Community Service Club, Building a Bulldog, the club sponsor for the 5,000 Role Models of Excellence, and the schoolā€™s tennis coach.

ā€œShe does whatever she can, whenever she can, however she can to support our students here at Braddock and she is absolutely an amazing, wonderful person,ā€ said Allen Breeding III, the principal of G. Holmes Braddock High School.

One student had this to say: ā€œShe really inspires you to push harder and be the best you can every day.ā€

Not one to take credit, she thanked the leadership of the school and her students.

ā€œā€¦ Because they mean the world to me.ā€

Robyn Hankerson-Printemps, the media relations manager for Publix Supermarkets, was on hand to present Towbin with another gift.

ā€œFirst we want to thank you on behalf of Publix for everything that you do for the students and for the community and we want to celebrate you a little bit more today ,and we want to present you with $1,000 in gift cards from Publix.ā€

Towbin, as expected, didnā€™t think of herself, replying ā€œā€Iā€™m going to stretch this very far, because all of my students, weā€™re going to have a celebration.ā€

And the celebration continued with one more surprise for Braddockā€™s top Bulldog, a cake for Principal Breeding, who is the first principal to have two teachers who have been honored in Local 10ā€²s Tribute to Teachers.ā€


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Mayte Padron Cordones is an Emmy-award winning journalist and the director of WPLG's Community Relations Department, overseeing the station's outreach initiatives to benefit and strengthen the South Florida community.

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