1.) “I’m teaching algebra one and AFDA.”

2.) “This is my 16th year teaching…I started in Virginia, and then we moved out west to Wyoming and Montana, and then we were in Texas, most recently for four years. So I’ve taught at junior high, high school, community college, online, just various different things as we’ve moved different places.”

3.) “This year, I want to develop relationships with my students and kind of get back into the Virginia standards and how that works from out of state.”

4.) “A fun fact is that I was born in Charlottesville, and so was my oldest, but we’ve only ever lived here for a couple years.”

1.) “I am teaching AP biology. I am teaching two sections of honors biology, and then I am teaching three sections of Advanced Biology. It’s a collaborative class, so I teach that with some of our English language learner students, and another teacher named Miss Acevedo teaches it with me.”

2.) “This is year eight in my own classroom. I did a year as a teaching assistant in 2015 to 2016.”

3.) “Professionally, I want to really collaborate with my other science teachers and my co-teacher and I want to feel comfortable and capable teaching in a new state. Virginia is similar to California in a lot of ways, and it’s familiar to me since I grew up here, but it’s definitely different in some ways as well. So that would be my professional goal, to really collaborate well with my coworkers and do the most that I can for my students. My personal goal would be to hike in Shenandoah National Park once a month at least. Not huge hikes, but like, a couple miles at a time.

4.) “I did pole vaulting in high school. I can cross one eye, which is super gnarly looking. I love roller coasters, and I can speak Mandarin.”

1.) “I am a school counselor for students with last names from Nas to Rob.”

2.) “I have been a school counselor for 18 years, and this is my first year here.”

3.) “My main goal this year is to know the kids on my caseload.”

4.) “I have lived in five different states, California, Oregon, Iowa, Louisiana, Virginia, and two different countries, the U.S. and England.”

1.) “I am a librarian with Miss Thorson in the media center.”

2.) “This will be my fifth year teaching. I started out as an English teacher, so I taught for three years, and then this is my second year as a librarian.”

3.) “My goal for this year is to get to know the students here and to also get to know the teachers, and to work with classes and to just really become a part of the community.”

4.) “I actually met the basketball player Kobe Bryant. I was living in California at the time, which is where I’m from, and I was working at Barnes and Noble, the bookstore, and he came in. It was seven o’clock in the morning, and he was buying business books. And the funny part about it is that I didn’t follow basketball at the time, so I didn’t even know it was Kobe Bryant until after he was done checking out. I was his cashier, and then the manager came, and she was like ‘Oh, that was Kobe Bryant,’ but apparently he shopped there buying business books and stuff pretty often.”

1.) “I am teaching scholar physics, which is a freshman physics class which is new. I’m teaching honors physics, and AP Physics 1.”

2.) “This is technically my first official year teaching, but I’ve spent the past several years at university and working in classes as a student teacher.”

3.) “Get the love of my kids, get them good scores on the AP exam, get good results from the Scholars Physics class and have a good time with it.”

4.) “I have worked for three years as a whitewater raft deckhand over the summer, I have lived in a tent and a car for 2 months at a time thrice, I do rock climbing and have a major in mathematics.”

1.) “Assistant principal.”

2.) “I’ve been teaching for eight years.”

3.) “To continue the road to my PHD, and building a relationship with students.”

4.) “I have a good sense of humor.”

1.) World History II, AP Human Geography, and AP World History.

2.) He has been teaching for around 9 and a half years. “I just moved here from Brooklyn, New York, so it’s all New York City schools.”

3.) “I would like to learn the area better; I would really like to assimilate into the area and school as easily as I can.”

4.) “I have an Australian Shepard named Darwin.”

1.) “I teach English 9 and 12.”

2.) “This is my first year!”

3.) “A goal I have this year is to feel more comfortable teaching and find my footing a little bit.”

4.) “I am a Chicago Cubs fan, their baseball team, but I do not enjoy baseball.”

1.) “This year I’m teaching English to 9th and 10th grade.”

2.) “8 years but I also was a school counselor for two years.”

3.) “My professional goal is to help my students become more professional in English, especially those who speak other languages at home.”

4.) “I have four dogs and one cat and maybe chickens.”

1.) “This year I’m teaching Geometry and Algebra 3.”

2.) “This is my 13th year teacher.”

3.) “Make good relationships with my students, and get to know everybody since I’m also new here.”

4.) “I have been to all 50 states.”

1.) “I’m an aid-based teacher, which means I’m a special education teacher with a specialty in autism.”

2.) “I’ve been teaching for around ten years now.”

3.) “Finding my way from place to place inside this school. I’m finally using the courtyard.”

4.) “When I’m not here I run fire rescue in Greene County.”

1.) “I am teaching English 10 and Core Plus.”

2.) “I’ve been teaching for almost two years now, this is my first full time teacher role so I’m excited about that.”

3.) “Just to look back at the year and think, you know, I did my best job helping kids  improve in their education and their lives outside of school, and just being an adult for people to come to.”

4.) “I was born in Miami.”

1.) “World history.”

2.) “I’ve been teaching for four years, but [this is] my first year at Albemarle.”

3.) “To draw more connections to present events, to now.”

4.) “I have a twin sister.”

1.) “I teach both Physics and Science Technology and Society. So I kinda meet in the middle of science and CTE.”

2.) “This is my second year of teaching. Last year I was teaching at Orange County High School teaching earth science and then moved here.”

3.) “My big goal this year is to make a welcoming classroom, one that people are excited to explore things and ask questions about. The biggest thing for me is just [that] everybody feels okay to be wrong.”

4.) “I love video games, playing D&D, and acting.”

1.) “Precalculus, [AB] calculus.”

2.) “21 years. 15 of those were in now Murrow County, but then I moved, so I taught in Louisa for two, and Charlottesville for two, before taking a year off last year. And now I’m back!”

3.) “I’m teaching new content, so my goal is to stay ahead of the content and build a comprehensive curriculum that I can use next year and be available to just tweak instead of starting from scratch.”

4.) “I’m a big runner and a big yogi.”

1.) “I am teaching sports medicine.”

2.) “I enjoy making connections with the students.”

3.) “To retire early.”

4.) “I guess a fun fact about me is that I am a DIYer.”

1.) “I’m the school counselor for students with last names Fit through Hern.”

2.) “This is my fourth year in school counseling.”

3.) “My goal this year is to get to know the students and find out what are the best ways I can support my students here at AHS.”

4.) “I have three kids, and I spend most of my time either on the soccer field or the basketball court with them.”

1.) “I’m teaching ecology and earth science.”

2.) “This is my second year.”

3.) “My goal is to inspire kids through hands-on activities and to know all my students.”

4.) “I was a fisheries biologist before I became a teacher, so I dove over a hundred times.”

1.) “I’m Assistant Principal to all students with letters Men to Saw.”

2.) “It’s my 14th year in education. I started in December as an IA, but I’ve known I wanted to be an educator since high school.”

3.) “I would say, if I had to say a goal, to get to know most of the students in the freshman class that I serve, to get to know them.”

4.) “I played college football; it kind of saved my life. I played at Concord, Division 2.”

1.) “This year, I’m teaching Algebra One and Algebra Two.”

2.) “This is my third year. I was at Burley middle school last year, and the year prior to that, I was at Western Albemarle as a long term sub.”

3.) “I’m still on the provisional license, so I’d like to get the full time license for teaching.”

4.) “I have six pets; I have four cats and two dogs.”

1.) “German.”

2.) “44 years, combined with French and one year of Spanish, but mostly German.”

3.) “My main goal is to be able to help my students speak fluent German by teaching them.”

4.) “I am in a musical band, an acoustic band; I play guitar and drums.”

1.) “I am teaching ESOL.”

2.) “This is my first year.”

3.) “My goal this year is to learn from my colleagues and build good relationships with my students.”

4.) “I am an artist, I am [into] sculpture.”

1.) “Art.”

2.) “I’ve been teaching for six years, but this is my first year in public school.”

3.) “To get the students to be a fan of art, and get them engaged.”

4.) “I used to make custom hand bags.”

1.) “This year, it’s my first year at Albemarle, and I am a mental health support specialist, and that is someone who works with students who are dealing with a number of different challenges, ranging from academics to behavior to health needs, to systematic issues, community issues, and issues at home.”

2.) “So this will technically be my first year in education, but in terms of my career, this is my tenth year in social work. I was an intensive care coordinator for Region Ten, which is someone who works through the lens of High Fidelity Wraparound, and in that model, we work with families that are in crisis and help them stabilize through providing services through CSA funding or through community support.”

3.) “My biggest goal this year is to get more accommodated with the academic domain and become more present here, and kind of understand how my role interacts with educators, that way I can be more proficient in my skill set next year.”

4.) “I was in orchestra for like 12 years, I played violin and viola, I’ve played at weddings before, and it’s a hidden secret of mine that no one ever expects. I’ve played at maybe three weddings, I’ve done quartets, solos, so yeah, it’s a hidden gem of mine that I keep tucked away.”

1.) “I’m teaching geometry and Honors Algebra Two and Trig.”

2.) “Zero years. First year, yeah, first year teacher right here!”

3.) “One goal I have for this year is just getting to know my students really well. I feel like that’s step one of anything, because if I know my students better, then I can teach them better. I know how they learn and how we can best support it.”

4.) “One fun fact about myself? I don’t know ASL super well, but I do know some ASL. I took sign language when I was in college, so I took two years, so I sign half the time that I’m talking.”