Lorin Carrier is a sixth grade English Arts Teacher for the Fair Grove Middle School District. The 2025-2026 school year is Carrier’s first year teaching at Fair Grove Schools.
Carrier noted that before joining Fair Grove, “For the last three and a half years I was a second grade teacher at Logan Rogersville.”
She continued to explain that choosing to teach at Fair Grove Schools was a decision she made knowing that she was ready for change and more than ready to get back to her home roots. Carrier is a previous student of Fair Grove and attended from kindergarten all the way until 12th grade.
There are many parts of Carrier’s job she enjoys. Carrier stated, “… I have loved seeing how sixth graders express themselves with their writing. Hearing their thoughts and insights about passages we have read and how they have collaborative conversations about literature is an amazing experience.”
Prior to teaching sixth grade Carrier taught second grade, with that experience she explained, “Knowing that at one point these students were second graders learning to read and now they are reading to learn, forming opinions about topics they read about, and using writing to express themselves has been a really cool full circle moment for me.”
During the time that Carrier attended Fair Grove as a student she explained that she was a part of the A+ Program and while assigned to Crandall’s classroom she decided that becoming a teacher is something she wanted to pursue.
Carrier stated, “I got the opportunity to work one on one with a special student who I still remember to this day.” She continued, “… watching her work so hard to accomplish her goals and knowing that I played a role in those accomplishments was one of the most rewarding experiences I had gotten to be a part of.”
Carrier has made a fun environment for middle school students to learn within. Piper Johnson (6), a student in Carrier’s class stated, “Her energy and just that she is always happy and making things funny helps me learn in class.”
Guy Small (6) added that Carrier helped him find books that he actually enjoyed reading and now, “reading is awesome.”
For Carrier, the most rewarding part about teaching is, “…seeing my students succeed.” Carrier loves to see her former students and knows that she played a small part in helping them along the way.
