And now a Johnson City educator has been named Tennessee’s teacher of the year. The Tennessee Department of Education announced Tuesday that Morgan Rankin is the 2021-22 teacher of the year.Rankin is a second grade teacher at South Side School, Rankin has been teaching for 14 years, including seven years in Tennessee. She is also a founding member of the Blue Ridge Literacy Project, which is dedicated to delivering professional development in research-based literacy practices to other Tennessee teachers.