As we welcome Teacher Appreciation week, I would like to give you our best advisors of Language Art Department. Without them we wouldn’t be able to enhance our knowledge of our own language and also widen our understanding to the importance of literature and poetry.

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Shannon Jauregui

             One the most dedicated teachers I know is Mrs. Shannon Jauregui. Not because she was an AP teacher or that she’s one of the teachers who made every senior’s year memorable but because of her commitment to her job. Throughout the year we have come to know Mrs. Jauregui, her hard work, and her determination to help her kids become the best of themselves.

             Every story have a start, and for Mrs. Jauregui it was when she was in high school that she found her calling, to teach English. “I found a lot of solace in reading and writing and my English teacher helped me see how writing was not only an art, but that you needed mastery of it to have a strong voice that would be heard and appreciated by others.”

             When Mrs. Jauregui received her love for English, she felt many doors opened up to her, she found confidence to who she was and wanted to share it to her students. “Because I feel like many teenagers start out a little lost and want their voices to be heard, but don’t know how to quite do that yet. My decision to become an English teacher had a lot to do with me wanting to show them how,” now who would argue that she is one of the inspirational teachers we have known?

             But that wasn’t the only thing that stick out about her, on one of the question asked, she revealed that she not only enjoys teaching English but she is also quite the nerd. She not only plays “Magic the Gathering,” but also enjoys spending her time playing video games like Overwatch, Horizon Zero Dawn, and let’s not forget her all time favorite Kingdom Hearts. But when it comes to her least favorite things, it is highly regarded to avoid talking about clowns. Mrs. Jauregui also likes activities such as running and hiking, whenever she has time to spend.

One thing is for sure, Mrs. Shannon Jauregui is one of the teachers that cultivate our school to become a “Place for Greatness.”

 

Renae Hipple

             Everyone has their own favorite teachers. These teachers are the ones who ignite the fire of learning within us and helped us blaze to success. One of those teacher is Ms. Renae Hipple. Ms. Hipple is loved by her students for her charisma, humor and her love of teaching. Her motivation for teaching was “The knowledge of being needed and appreciated… That’s why I am so often willing to make extra time for someone or to go the extra mile for my students when others don’t.” Her joy is to see her students appreciate the beauty of writing, of creating something remarkable in both literature and poetry, for her herself is a poet by heart.

             And just like how much she loves poetry, she also enjoys reading historical fiction and watching horror movies, “I’m fascinated with morbid disasters, like the Donner Party. Or epidemics of disease, like Cholera.  I kind of call myself a disastrophe. I also LOVE horror movies.  Especially old style and british horror.  The creepier the better.” Ms. Hipple even conveyed her hopes of creating a horror film club, if someone is interested.

Just like most people she also have her fears and likes. One example is her phobia with anything excessively leggy. But Ms. Hipple finds the sound of waves on a lakeshore, the breezes in tall grasses and the call of loons soothing that she even revealed she miss Michigan.  In the overall experience of interviewing her, one thing is for sure, we can’t wait to hear more wonderful stories from Ms. Hipple.

 

Ms. Cory White

             Ms. Cory White is one of the most diligent teachers every freshman and sophomore knows. She is known to give her very best when it comes to her students, when they thought that they couldn’t do something. “[So] I push them. Sometimes they push back, but I don’t give up on my students, even when they want to give up on themselves. The best part of teaching English is when students look back at the end of the year and see how much they’ve actually learned and accomplished. When they see how much they have grown over the year and are as proud of themselves as I am of them.”

 

             Ms. White wasn’t always what she is now. She revealed that she would sometimes pretend to be sick just to avoid being called out to read. She hated it until she realized that the only way out was to work hard and improve her skills and get out. Slowly she started to learn how to love reading, and now she uses that to the best of her ability.

 

             And like most teachers, she revealed her fears of bugs. “ I’ve been known to check the ceiling when I enter rooms where I have previously encountered bugs on the ceiling,” she said. She also loves to travel the world and hopefully have an extensive list of all the places she hopes to see. For an activity, she enjoys hiking and being at the beach. “ I love swimming and soaking up the sunshine, even if the sun doesn’t love me.” The life she wants to lead for herself and her students is as she quote “better than I found it,” through hard work.