By: Madyn Strauss

 7th-grade math teacher Carolyn Fox shares personal advice and her own experiences teaching at Jefferson Middle School in this month’s Teacher Spotlight.

Education shows us the importance of hard work and the effects of dedication. 

When asked why she became a teacher, Miss Fox responded with, “My mother was a teacher.  She was an art teacher in the area and I always admired how she came up with really creative art lessons.” 

From the admiration of her mother and getting good grades, Fox was a straight-A student through high school, being salutatorian when graduating from a class of 17. 

“It was really tiny. We sat in one single row on the stage for graduation! Just one row of students. It took, like, thirty minutes.” Nonetheless, her drive, determination, and motivation evidently got her far. 

We are all well aware of COVID and how it has negatively affected those of us. When the question on how COVID has negatively affected teachers, Fox states that the reteaching of what was not learned last year due to the lack of understanding for what was learned with the little time they had to learn in the years before. 

The understanding of teachers and more specifically, Caroline Fox has helped us learn the personal experiences coming from an academic standpoint here at Jefferson Middle School.