Paula Mathews of Dripping Springs, TX believes in constant innovation to serve her students. Handmade quilts decorate the walls of Paula...

Chelsea Quillen of Lake Elementary School isn’t the first one in her family to teach. With her mom also a teacher, Chelsea remembers...

Carol Leonard of Western Sierra Collegiate Academy decidedly did not know she wanted to teach. With an engineering degree from California...

International Leadership of Texas, College Station focuses on making connections and forming relationships between students and teachers....

Elizabeth Palermo is an educator who prides herself on creating a community of trust and respect and encourages her students to believe...

LaTosca Davis of Clay Classical Academy has a true passion for education. This fuels her creativity in the classroom and her desire to...

You would be hard-pressed to find someone more suited to teach than Angie Stevenson of Cobb Mountain Elementary. Her first teaching gig?...

Leslie Frank of Great Hearts in Irving, Texas didn’t exactly get here the traditional way. Starting in the 9th grade, she was set on...

With a bachelor’s degree in agriculture economics, you wouldn’t assume Karen Peyton of Hempstead Middle School would end up teaching....

Geri Garrick, a math teacher at Oroville Adult Education Center, truly believes that education has the power to change lives. Nurturing...

Flor Mendoza of Dayton High School has always had a knack for teaching, yet she still pushes herself to be the best educator she can be,...

Amanda Thomas of Del Rio Learning Center wanted to work with children, but teaching wasn’t always in the plans. Originally interested in...

Morgan Taylor is now in her second year of teaching at Boyd Middle School, the school where she herself grew up, and while starting in...

After 20 years of teaching, Sarah Rose of Alex Sanger Preparatory is just as passionate about teaching as when she first started out....

Rose Sosa believes teaching is a calling, not just an occupation, and as such dedicates herself completely to her role as an educator and...

Alison Mason of Lake Elementary School remembers vividly when her passion for school began: fifth grade. From then on, the desire to be a...

Ashley Teela, an educator at Blackland Prairie Elementary, has always had a love for learning. Now, in her 11th year as an educator, she...

After nearly two decades of teaching, Ashley Coombs, a teacher at Cottonwood Creek Elementary, is as enthusiastic as ever, and the joy...

Katie Withers of Banta Elementary stood up in front of her kindergarten class and declared she wanted to be a teacher. As it turns out...

Amber Ellis of Cedars International Academy is heading toward her second decade of teaching. Working with children was always something...