Her specialties at Milton were journalism, literature, grammar, and independent reading. She also sponsored the school newspaper. Warren was a county representative in 1993 for the RESA III regional award for exemplary teaching techniques. In 1992, she was awarded a minigrant for an innovative and creative program to encourage student appreciation and understanding of poetry. She is innovative and dynamic in the classroom, infusing her students with tremendous motivation and instilling in them an appetite for the joys of learning.
All students can learn. . . .
I care for my students and desire for them to excel in all areas as if they were my own children. Putnam's honored teacher began tutoring her peers in elementary school and thereafter she never stopped teaching. She tutored others through high school and college. As a volunteer, she taught band in a local elementary school which otherwise would have been without a program in instrumental music. Carla Warren attends Milton Baptist Church where she is a choir member and Sunday school teacher.