Rebecca Minton named Ohio District Teacher of the Year
Rebecca Minton, a 21-year Peebles High School agriculture teacher, was named one of 11 Ohio district teachers of the year.
Rebecca Minton brought Adams County into the Ohio State Board of Education’s statewide teaching spotlight when the board named her the District 5 Teacher of the Year. She was one of 11 educators selected for the 2027 District Teacher of the Year cohort, a group the board says will serve as ambassadors for public education and the teaching profession in Ohio.
The announcement, made July 8, listed Minton as a high school agriculture education teacher in the Adams County Ohio Valley School District. In a county where school ties run deep, the honor reaches beyond a single classroom because it places a Peebles educator in a role meant to represent teachers publicly across the state.
Minton’s connection to Peebles High School is unusually long and local. A staff page for Becky Minton says she has 21 years of teaching experience and has spent all 21 of those years at Peebles High School. The same page says she graduated from Peebles High School and Ohio Valley CTC, earned a Bachelor of Science in agriculture education and later received a Master of Education from Ohio Dominican University.
That background helps explain why the recognition resonates in Adams County. Minton is not an outside hire or a short-term assignment; she is a Peebles graduate who returned, trained in agriculture education, and stayed in the same building for more than two decades. For students in a high school agriculture program, that kind of continuity means their teacher is also a local example of the county’s own educational pipeline, from student to career educator.
The state board’s designation gives the Adams County Ohio Valley School District a public marker of teacher quality at a time when school systems compete for attention and credibility. It also offers a morale boost for colleagues and families who see the honor as validation of work already happening inside the classroom at Peebles High School. For a small district, statewide recognition for one teacher can carry the reputation of the building and the county well beyond the school year.
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