Name: Kimberly Smith
Years of Experience: One
College: USW
What you Teach: 3rd grade, Taylor
Favorite Book: Twilight Series
Favorite pasttime: Spending time with my daughter, Kaleigh
Your Most Influential Educator: Shelly Palmer, my fifth-grade teacher. She made learning fun and made me want to become a teacher. I had the privilege of doing my intern teaching with her and learned so much.
Name: Danielle Snyder
Years of Experience: One
College: USW
What you Teach: 6th grade, Sanger
Favorite Book: The Notebook
Favorite pasttime: Scrapbooking
Your Most Influential Educator: Joe Loving, my 6th grade teacher at Sanger. I can never remember a day that I wasn't excited to go to school.
Name: Jared Stephens
Years of Experience: Five
College: USW
What you Teach: 3rd grade, Taylor
Favorite Book: Bleachers
Favorite pasttime: Spending time with my family
Your Most Influential Educator: Mr. Brooks, my high school social studies teacher. He was entertaining and fair.
Name: Stephanie Stephens
Years of Experience: Three
College: ENMU
What you Teach: 7th grade Math, Houston
Favorite Book: Wuthering Heights
Favorite pasttime: Reading and playing with my son
Your Most Influential Educator: Mrs. McClellan, my 8th-grade English teacher. She has a great personality, treated her students with respect and had a very non-traditional teaching style that kept me engaged.
Name: Melinda Traver
Years of Experience: One
College: Texas Tech
What you Teach: Houston, Inclusion
Favorite Book: Same Kind of Different As Me
Favorite pasttime: Watching my little boy grow up
Your Most Influential Educator: Jon Gilcrease, my math teacher. Mr. Gilcrease traveled with us from seventh grade on up and made math fun and interesting no matter how complex it was.