Education
After graduating from high school, Tippett began teaching high school, and attended the University of Missouri during summer breaks.
After graduating from high school, Tippett began teaching high school, and attended the University of Missouri during summer breaks.
Tippett moved to Nashville, Tennessee, in 1918 to become principal of Peabody Demonstration School. In 1922, he left to join the Lincoln School at Teachers College in New York as an instructor and special investigator. During this time, he began writing children"s books
The Singing Farmer, his first book, was inspired by a classroom farm exhibit.
lieutenant was published in 1927. Tippett taught in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and South Carolina, while continuing to write children"s books and edit educational textbooks.
There he served as a visiting professor of education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill until his death in 1958. In 1972 his name was added to the North Carolina Educational Hall of Fame.
James South. Tippit wrote a famous poem called "Sunning" in 1947 before he died.