I interviewed a 9th-grade English teacher at Santaluces High School. She’s someone loved across campus, with most students having something positive to say about her: her name is Mrs. Gibson. She’s happily married with two lovely children, a boy and a girl (one of which, her son, attends Santaluces as a varsity football player). Mrs. Gibson doesn’t only teach English to high schoolers; she’s also responsible for teaching English to the adults at night school.

This will be Mrs. Gibson’s third year at Santaluces and her 10th year teaching. Mrs. Gibson attended several colleges over her academic career, transferring from Palm Beach State to Florida Atlantic University and then to Berry State University. She has a bachelor’s degree in early childhood education and a master’s degree in reading.

Mrs. Gibson loves teaching, but in her spare time, she likes reading, writing, and working out. She loves to work out—she works out every morning and night. She watches what she eats, making sure to get enough protein, only drinking water, and even measuring the calories in her fruit. Mrs. Gibson can be a bit of a health nut.

Mrs. Gibson chose to teach because she wanted to share her love of reading with others. She wants children (and adults) to enjoy reading instead of disliking it because it’s too hard. Mrs. Gibson expressed her desire for a better education system for foreign exchange students. She wants them to be able to come to another country and better assimilate into the school. Mrs. Gibson pushes her students to get better at reading and understand what they are reading so they won’t have a reading class next year.