Born in: Dickson, TN

College attended: Austin Peay State University & TSU

Started Teaching:  1995

Favorite thing about my job: I love to watch students grow and be confident in their learning.

3 things I love: God, my family, all kinds of crafts

Favorite quote: Psalm 46:1 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

Born in: Okinawa, Japan
College attended: Christian Life College, TN Tech Center, Excelsior College
Started working with children in: 2019
Favorite thing about my job: The Students and staff
3 things I love: Family time, Camping, and Reading
Favorite quote: "Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how to answer every man." Col 4:6

Born in: Rockledge, FL
College attended: Austin Peay State University
Started teaching in: 2003
Favorite thing about my job: Seeing the happiness on children's faces as they create music
3 things I love: Jesus, my family, and cheesecake!
Favorite quote: Trust in the Lord with all your heart.

 Born in: Clovis, CA
College attended: Nashville State, and currently attending Western Governors University
Started working with children in: 2018
Favorite thing about my job: Working with the Students, and watching them grow
3 things I love: My Family, Basketball & Coffee
Favorite quote: Work Hard In Silence, Let Success Make The Noise

Born in: Dickson, TN
Colleges attended: Tennessee Tech
Started working with children in: 1999
Favorite thing about my job: Smiling and the children
3 things I love: Walking, time with family, cooking

Born in: Nashville, TN
Started working with children in: 2008 subbing
Favorite thing about my job: The one on one with the students in small groups and getting to know them personally is by far my favorite thing about my job 

3 things I love: God, Family, and the Lake

Favorite quote:  I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me!

Born in: Hanford, CA

College attended: Belmont University

Started teaching in: 2022

Favorite thing about my job: Putting failures and mistakes into a growth perspective.

3 things I love: God, Spending time with my family, and exercising.  

Favorite quote: “Be Curious, Not Judgmental”

Born: Dickson TN

College Attended: APSU

Started Teaching In: 1987

Favorite thing about my job: Watching kids learn

3 things I love: family, reading, friends

Favorite Quote: We dislike what we don't understand

Born in: Dickson, TN
College attended: University of TN, Knoxville; Austin Peay State University
Started teaching in: 1989
Favorite thing about my job: Helping students learn to read and succeed!
3 things I love: My family, Reading, Shopping

Born in: Dickson, TN

Colleges attended: Nashville State Community College & Austin Peay State University

Started teaching in: 2023, but have worked with children since 2017

Favorite thing about my job: Seeing students have their lightbulb moment.

3 things I love: Jesus, Disney, my family!

Favorite quote: "If you can dream it, you can do it." -Walt Disney 

Born: Dickson

Years working with kids: 16 years

Favorite thing about your job: Working and helping the kids. The hugs and smiles make my day.

Three things you love: Family/Friends, Roll Tide and Sweet Tea

Favorite Quote: "It is what it is"

Born in: Dickson, TN
Started working with children in: 1989
Favorite thing about my job: the hours

3 things I love DIY projects, family, Nature

Favorite quote You may not understand now, but someday you will. 

Born in: Dickson, TN
Started working with children in: 1999
Favorite thing about my job: A smile on the kid's face, the hugs, and the wonderful people I work with
3 things I love: The color orange, The VOLS, and my family
Favorite quote: “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” - Oscar Wilde

Born In: Dickson TN

College attended:

Years working with children: 23 years

Favorite thing about your job: Hearing the funny stories the kids tell me

3 Things you love: My family, crafting, and animals

Your favorite Quote: " The best thing is life isn't things"

Born in: Nashville, TN
College attended: University of Phoenix
Started working with children in: 2016
Favorite thing about my job: Helping create an academic foundation as well as social-emotional friendly learning environment for our students
3 things I love: My children and family, animals and farm life, and being outdoors
Favorite quote: "What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others." - Percicles

Born in: Dickson, TN
College attended: Welch College
Started teaching in: 2021
Favorite thing about my job: Helping children grow and learn in the way that is appropriate for them
3 things I love: Family, Reading, and Camping
Favorite quote: "All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us." - J.R.R. Tolkien 

Born in: Waverly, TN

Colleges attended: Austin Peay State University, Cumberland University

Started teaching in: 1987

Favorite thing about my job: Building relationships with students

3 things I love: Family, my fur babies, and books

Favorite quote: "Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them." Lady Bird Johnson 

Born in: Atlanta, GA

College attended: APSU

Started teaching in: 1997

Favorite thing about my job: Seeing student growth throughout the year

3 things I love: family, church, animals

Born in: Jackson, TN
College attended: Freed-Hardeman University and University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Started teaching in: 2011
Favorite thing about my job: Getting to be a part of students lives and watching them grow academically
3 things I love: Reading, Music, Theater
Favorite quote: "When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I have would not a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'. - Erma Bombeck

Born in: Madison, GA
College attended: Western Governors University
Started teaching in: 2019
Favorite thing about my job: Helping students realize their potential and watching them have those lightbulb moments
3 things I love: My kids, our animals, coffee
Favorite quote: "Be the change you wish to see in the world."

Born in: Houston, TX

College attended: Austin Peay State University and University of Tennessee at Martin

Started teaching in: 2008

Favorite thing about my job: Seeing the "lightbulb" moment when children understand a difficult concept.

3 things I love: My family, cupcakes, and spa treatments

Favorite quote: "She is clothed with strength and dignity, and she laughs without fear of the future" Proverbs 31:35

Born in: Dickson, TN
Colleges attended: Austin Peay State University and Tennessee State University
Started teaching in: 1999
Favorite thing about my job: Seeing students learning and growing
3 things I love: my girls, the beach, being outside
Favorite quote: "Hope anchors the soul."  Hebrews 6:19

Born in: Goldsberg, Missouri
College attended: Austin Peay State University
Started teaching in: 1994
Favorite thing about my job: Collaborating with teachers
3 things I love: Family, Grandkids, Eating at different restaurants
Favorite quote: Remember the Past, Enjoy the Present, Embrace the Future

Born in: Nashville, TN
Started working with children in: 2006
Favorite thing about my job: Working with children and seeing them make gains
3 things I love: Grandchildren, Family and BASEBALL!
Favorite quote: Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about, BE KIND, ALWAYS!

Born in: Nashville, TN
College attended: Middle Tennessee State University
Started teaching in: 2010
Favorite thing about my job: Helping students see their potential
3 things I love: My family, my job/ my students, sports
Favorite quote: "The future belongs to those that believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt

Born in: Las Vegas, Nevada

College attended: Holmes Community College , Goodman Mississippi

Started assistant teaching/subbing/and working with children in 2009 in Mississippi ; started working with children 2019 In Tennessee and working at Oakmont in 2020

Favorite thing about my job: Inspiring my students to do their very best everyday with love and kindness

3 things I love; Spending time with my family and friends, reading my Bible, and listening to Worship Music

Favorite quote:Proverbs 31:25

Born in: Dickson, TN
College attended: APSU and TSU
Started teaching children in: 2001
Favorite thing about my job: Observing great lessons and discussing success with staff
3 things I love: God, friends/family, sports, country music, & desserts
Favorite quote: “Leadership is communicating to people their worth and potential so clearly that they come to see it in themselves.”

Born in: Waverly, TN
Colleges attended: University of Tennessee at Martin and Walden University
Started teaching in: 1996
Favorite thing about my job: Making a difference in my students' lives every day.
3 things I love: My family, a good book at the beach, Diet Mountain Dew
Favorite quote: "Try to be a Rainbow in Someone's Cloud." - Maya Angelou

Born in: Dickson, Tn

College attended: Austin Peay State University

Started:  2023

Favorite thing about my job: creating art with the students

3 things I love: Spending time with my family and friends, Art, Outdoor activities (fishing and kayaking)

Born in: Dickson, TN
College attended: Austin Peay and Arkansas State
Started teaching in: 2009
Favorite thing about my job: The kids
5 things I love: My cows, farm, horse, dogs, and family
Favorite quote: ‘Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions.’ - Unknown

Born in: Waverly, Tennessee
College attended: University of Phoenix and University of Tennessee Martin
Started Teaching in: 2014
Favorite thing about my job: Interactions with children
3 things I love: spending time with my grandsons, yard work, and reading

Born In: Pontiac MI

College attended:

Years working with kids: 15 years

Favorite thing about your job: The people I work with

3 Things you love: Mountain Dew, Dr. Pepper and my grandkids

Your favorite quote: "Enjoy life"

Born in: Tuscumbia, AL

Colleges attended: Nashville State University, (WGU) Western Governors University

Started teaching in: 2010

Favorite thing about my job: Having fun with my students and seeing the lightbulb go off!

3 things I love: Jesus, My family, my pets

Favorite quote: "As water reflects the face, so one's life reflects the heart" Proverbs 27:19

Born in: Oak Park, Illinois
College attended: University of Tennessee at Martin
Started teaching in: 2006
Favorite thing about my job: Building relationships with my students
3 things I love: Reading, sitting on my back porch, my family
Favorite quote: "Anyone who can only think of one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination." - Mark Twain

Born in: Dickson, TN
College attended: Austin Peay State University
Started teaching in: 2012
Favorite thing about my job: Teaching the kids; watching them learn and grow
3 things I love: Reading, family, watching TV
Favorite quote: Jeremiah 29:11

Born in: Nashville, TN
College attended: Austin Peay State University & Freed-Hardeman University
Started teaching in: 2017
Favorite thing about my job: Seeing students learn to never give up
3 things I love: Being creative, joking with my class, spending time with family

Born in: Huntingdon, TN

Colleges attended: University of Memphis

Started teaching in: 2023

Favorite thing about my job: Helping kids explore new things and step outside their box.  

3 things I love: Reading, Crafting, Being Outdoors

Favorite quote: "It isn't what we say or think that defines us. Its what we do" - Jane Austen 

Born in: Dickson, TN

College attended: Nashville State Community College and  Austin Peay State University

Started working with children in: 2022

Favorite thing about my job: The days are always filled with adventure.

3 things I love: My family, my job, and George Strait

Favorite quote:  " If it doesn't challenge you, It won't change you."- Fred Devito

Born in: Americus, GA
Started working with children in: 2005
Favorite thing about my job: Helping children learn and be loved
3 things I love: God, Family and Life

Born in: Maury, TN
College attended: Columbia State, MTSU, TN Wesleyan
Started teaching in: 2012
Favorite thing about my job: Teaching children new things and watching the light bulb go off when they learn something new
3 things I love: Spending time with my family, outdoors/hunting, being crafty
Favorite quote: Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass.....It's learning to dance in the rain.

Born in: Dickson, TN
College attended: Nashville State Community College; East Central University
Started working with children in: 2010
Favorite thing about my job: Working with kids and teaching them
3 things I love: Coffee, reading a good book, and traveling
Favorite Quote: "Don't quit 5 minutes before the Miracle." - Anonymous

Born in: Franklin, TN

Colleges attended: Middle Tennessee State University

Started teaching in: 2022

Favorite thing about my job: Seeing the growth that my students have. Not just in my class, but with each passing year when seeing them in the halls. 

3 things I love: Cherry Coke, Soft Rock, My Husband

Favorite quote: "Education is the movement of darkness to light.” - Allan Bloom

Born in: Macon, Georgia
College attended: Mississippi College, University of North Alabama
Started teaching in: 2019
Favorite thing about my job: Getting to build relationships with the students and staff
3 things I love: My dog, Reading, Dr. Pepper
Favorite quote: "People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be." - Carl Rogers

Born: Dickson TN

College attended: MTSU, APSU

Started working with children: 2002

Favorite thing about my job: the smiles of the students and my teacher friends

3 things I love: Jesus, Iced Coffee, Family &Sports

Favorite quote:  I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength- Phil 4:3

Born in: Erin, TN
College attended: Austin Peay State University, Nova Southeastern University
Started teaching in: 1999
Favorite thing about my job: Providing healthy activities to get students moving
3 things I love: Fishing, Music, Movies

Born in: Hermitage, TN

Colleges attended: Kennesaw State University, University of Tennessee

Started working with children here in: 2021 (2023 officially with the district)

Favorite thing about my job: Building relationships with students.

3 things I love: Traveling, Singing, Crafts

Favorite quote: "I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples." -Mother Teresa

Born in: Waverly, TN
College attended: MTSU
Started teaching in: 1998
Favorite thing about my job: Helping kids learn that reading is FUN!
3 things I love: Reading, traveling, and cooking 

Born in: Dickson,TN
Started working with students in: 2020
3 things I love: Spending time with my 3 children, Traveling & Photography
Favorite quote: "She remembered who she was and the game changed."

Born in:

College attended: APSU, American Inst of Banking

Years working with children: 20 plus
Favorite thing about my job: Seeing the kids
3 things I love: chocolate, fall and my new grandbaby
Favorite quote: "Always go the extra mile." 

Born in: Nashville, Tennessee
College attended: University of Tennessee at Knoxville and Austin Peay University
Started teaching in: 2006
Favorite thing about my job: Working with kids
3 things I love: reading, traveling, and gardening

Born in: Columbia, TN
College attended: Austin Peay State University
Started teaching in: 2018
Favorite thing about my job: Working with the students and helping them to be successful
3 things I love: Family, Basketball, Football

Born in: Dickson, TN
College attended: Welch College
Started teaching in: 2006
Favorite thing about my job: Helping children grow to be their best
3 things I love: family, crafting, reading
Favorite quote: "Believe you can and you're halfway there." - Theodore Roosevelt