This week's Staff Spotlight is Laura Nabors, 1st Grade Teacher.
1. What inspired you to pursue a career in education?
I have always known I wanted to work with children. With each child, you have the opportunity to make a difference in the world.
2. What’s your favorite part of working with students?
I love the relationships that are built and their excitement once they finally master something new.
3. If you weren’t in education, what do you think you’d be doing?
If I wasn’t teaching, I would probably be a travel agent. I love planning adventures for our family. I enjoy looking for things that are unique and things that people will enjoy. I would have a side business of photography as well. I love taking pictures and find it so relaxing. I love to capture special memories.
4. Do you have any professional goals you’re working on this year?
If you have ever seen my room or desk, then you will understand this goal. I am trying to be more organized in my classroom and life. I am trying to declutter things in my classroom and closet. My goal is for my desk to be more organized and to have more surface area available.
5. What’s one thing you love most about our school community?
There is something special about getting to give back to the community in which you live. Also, I like how there are so many opportunities to learn from other teachers and coaches. Even though we are a large school, it feels like a small community/school.
6. Is there a particular moment in the school year you look forward to each year?
I love a good dress up day or any theme day. My two favorite weeks of the year are the week before we get out for Christmas and Read Across America Week. The week before we get out for Christmas, I get to do my Gingerbread week. I enjoy introducing the students to all the different versions of the story. During Read Across America week, I love taking different virtual field trips to the National Parks. It is such a fun week introducing my students to the different animals and habitats. I find different snacks to go with the different parks. This year, we got to visit the Mammoth Fossil museum in Waco.
7. Do you have any hobbies or hidden talents?
I love to read and go on adventures. My hidden talents would have to be painting and photography. (I have taken way too many pictures over the years at softball games!)
8. What’s something people would be surprised to learn about you?
I was adopted when I was 5 weeks old.
9. If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you go and why?
I would go to Paris and then I would take a side adventure to Giverny where Monet painted his Bridge over a Pool of Water Lilies.
Another bucket list trip would be to go to Crystal River to swim with the manatees!! 🙂
10. What’s a food you can never say no to?
First, I would give anything to taste food again.
I would never say no to my mom’s spaghetti, her cornbread dressing, or my great grandmother’s chicken and dumplings.