Special Education teacher Wendi Rhodes of Springfield, Georgia, passed away from Covid-19 on March 9, 2021. She is shown here with her son Davin Rhodes. Photo credit: GoFundMe.

With great sadness, we report that yet another beloved educator has succumbed to Covid 19. Wendi Rhodes, a high school Special Education teacher in Springfield, Georgia, passed away on March 9, 2021. She was only 48 years old.

As a youngster, Wendi attended high school in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. After graduating in 1990, she enrolled at Georgia Southern University located in Statesboro, Georgia. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Education with an emphasis on Special Education in 1995. In 2012, Wendi graduated from Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, Georgia, with her Master’s Degree in Special Education.

As a neophyte educator, Wendi began her career as a first through third grade self-contained Specific Learning Disability teacher Chatham County, Georgia. Later she moved to Lexington, Kentucky. There she taught high school special education for two years, splitting her time between collaborating in the regular education math classes and working with self-contained students who were learning life skills. She then moved to Manassas, Virginia, and worked as a Transition Coordinator for the Manassas City School System. While there, she assisted with job internship placements and facilitated on-the-job training for students with disabilities.

Upon returning to Georgia in 2001, Wendi has worked with students with disabilities at the high school level at Jenkins High School in Savannah, and at both South Effingham High School and Effingham County High School. Her students were the severe and profoundly intellectually disabled.

During her leisure hours, Wendi enjoyed reading novels, crafting projects, bargain shopping, going to concerts, and traveling, especially to the mountains.

To learn more about Wendi Rhodes, see this brief biography published by Effingham County High School.