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  • Baraga School
  • Baraga, MI
  • Nearly all students from low‑income households

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I have been a teacher at Baraga Area Schools since 2014 and having worked at a few other schools can honestly say that I am blessed to work here. Many of them face hardships at home that most of us couldn't imagine, and they are still some of the most resilient and caring kids that I have ever worked with. Teaching children in areas of economic hardship can be really tough. How can you ask someone to focus on a piece of literature about someone living in circumstances they can't even relate to? How can you ask them to learn a foreign language when they are coming to school tired or hungry? My goal has been to create the most welcoming and comfortable environment possible and to try and engage students by making lessons more interesting and hands on as well as making them relate to students' own lives and futures. The effort is worth it. The reward is great.

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I have been a teacher at Baraga Area Schools since 2014 and having worked at a few other schools can honestly say that I am blessed to work here. Many of them face hardships at home that most of us couldn't imagine, and they are still some of the most resilient and caring kids that I have ever worked with. Teaching children in areas of economic hardship can be really tough. How can you ask someone to focus on a piece of literature about someone living in circumstances they can't even relate to? How can you ask them to learn a foreign language when they are coming to school tired or hungry? My goal has been to create the most welcoming and comfortable environment possible and to try and engage students by making lessons more interesting and hands on as well as making them relate to students' own lives and futures. The effort is worth it. The reward is great.

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