CorpusRecord 11095

Teacher of the Year 25-26

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Source
YouTube / Petersburg City Public Schools
Date
2026-05-21
Location
Petersburg city, VA
Material
Transcript
Extent
208 words · about 2 min
Collected
2026-06-02

Transcript

Verbatim source text

001Um, I can tell you that you hear a lot in the news about education. You hear that it's so difficult. You hear that people are leaving it. But no path that is as great as this is going to be easy. And that's for sure. But what we're doing is so impactful and so meaningful that it is worth it. What we see to see our students walk across that stage from high school to see them enter a trade school, see them go to college, it is so worth it. uh to be able to say that you were a part of something great and helping students achieve something great. One of the biggest things I tell people, you know, it's so great that I want to teach other. I really appreciate my peers. But I do this

002in depth. It's not just the work of myself. It is all the people who I spend with and if they get someone who wants to pour into them and I I suggest that every teacher looks for that. Um they're going to have a good one in this field in their education. So don't give up. And if they're at school with me, I'm going to take care of them. But that's been one of my biggest things since I started, even my first year, is supporting other people because it's not easy. And I think being a career switcher, I came with a little bit of work ethic and background in. And so I try to help other people, you know, get past those hurdles. But it's so well. And also, these children are going to take care

003of us when we get older. So we need to make sure we straight Heat. Heat.

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