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Cammack spent 12 years at Grundy High School, where he revitalized a struggling FBLA chapter and turned it into a comeback story filled with student success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhen I first got to Grundy, that organization wasn\u2019t in the best shape,\u201d he said. \u201cThey were very unreliable as a school, especially at competitions. However, within my first year having control of it, in my second year of teaching, I ended up having a national winner.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Word spread quickly. Over the next decade, Grundy\u2019s FBLA program will celebrate eight national winners, three national championships, and multiple state officers representing Tennessee. When Cammack later accepted a position as a computer technology teacher at West Middle School in 2014, administrators didn\u2019t hesitate to give him the green light to start an FBLA chapter at the middle school and to assist at Tullahoma High School as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Middle school, however, brought a new kind of challenge. \u201cThey are a different breed,\u201d he laughed. \u201cEvery day is an adventure. With the high schoolers, you know what to expect daily with them, but at middle school, you never know what you’re going to get day to day. But there are so many real-life teachable moments that occur that I’m able to take some time and work through them with the students. It’s those real-life moments of getting to teach that, that\u2019s pretty cool about the middle school level.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As a related arts teacher, he theoretically sees every student in the building, and he treats that responsibility with intention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI teach all three grade levels, and I will usually have every single kid in the building over the course of the school year. When they come in as 6th graders, we spend a good week getting to know each other, them getting to know me, who I am, and me finding out what their hobbies and interests are. They take a learning style profile for me so I can figure out the best way that they learn. Because, as I tell them, \u2018we’re going to be together for the next three years.\u2019 I need to know who they are.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n While his individualized approach has evolved, Cammack\u2019s honesty, openness, and genuine care have always been there. To his credit, his FBLA programs at both the middle and high school levels continued to grow, even as the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted competitions nationwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe were kind of derailed by COVID,\u201d he said. \u201cAs we started to really build, I thought this was going to be a great chapter, and then COVID hit in-person competitions. For that 2020 season, we only had one middle school student in the state, and one who was able to compete nationally. What was cool was that it was one of mine, because of some prejudged stuff we were able to have sent in before everything hit. He wound up being a national winner during that virtual conference.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n That unexpected victory became a spark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cFrom there, it just built, and I was like, \u2018well, we had one national winner when we couldn’t be together and work. Imagine what we can do when we’re together.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n When in\u2011person conferences resumed in 2022, his students earned five national wins. In 2023, they brought home six. Cammack added that the connection with the students was the success of the program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cFinding the thing that fits them,\u201d he said. \u201cThat comes from getting to know those students, finding out, okay, what is your passion? What are your strengths? It’s a great feeling because I know that they’re going to be more passionate about what they are doing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Beyond trophies and titles, he believes FBLA gives students something deeper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt helps develop their leadership skills. First and foremost, it brings this sense of accomplishment,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now in his 20th year of teaching, Cammack said he hopes each student who crosses his classroom threshold remembers him as a person, not just a teacher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI hope they remember that I was real,\u201d he said. “That I was not just a teacher. I was a real person who took an interest, listened, and tried to take care of them.” GN<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" WEST MIDDLE School computer education teacher, Franklin Cammack, is a fan of many things, but the Marvel Universe holds a special place on that list. Spider-Man, Thor, Captain America, and the Hulk are all heroes with extraordinary abilities who amaze and inspire us. To most people in their worlds, these heroes appear completely ordinary, their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":24945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/goodnewsmags.com\/tullahoma\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/04\/1-1024x683.jpg\")
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