Brigitte Tillery is one of the Healthcare Science Technology and Certified Nursing Assistant Instructors at Cedartown High School and Rockmart High School as part of the Polk County College and Career Academy. She has been teaching Healthcare at CHS for 24 years and is currently a traveling teacher between high schools and has been the CNA Instructor at RHS for six years.

Alabama and became a Registered Nurse. Mrs. Tillery then earned a Teaching Certificate from Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. Before choosing Education as a career, Mrs. Tillery worked as a Registered Nurse at Floyd Medical Center in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit as well as working in various other areas of the hospital. She is married to Todd Tillery, the AP at CHS. They have a daughter, Laura-Ashlee, 21, and son, Zak, 16.

In the CNA Classroom, we strive for excellence along with many other endeavors on a daily basis. My goal is to provide a meaningful learning environment in which real world connections to providing healthcare in a medical care facility is incorporated. The students complete clinicals at two local nursing homes in our community. I encourage students to create a healthcare goal for themselves and we strive to incorporate strategies in which the student can work to achieve and surpass these goals of a healthcare career. Along our educational journey, I hope to instill outstanding work ethics, creative problem solving, higher levels of thinking as well as compassionate, loving and caring connections towards healthcare consumers.