Room 17 - Ms. Hailey

Barbara Hailey, 3rd Grade, Lafayette Elementary

            I am a teacher because of my first grade teacher, Mrs. Evue, and my fifth grade teacher, Mother Genevieve. They both had a grandmotherly quality that made me want to be near them and inspired me to want to always do my best.  I hope that one day, one of my former students will say that I had similarly affected their school years.

            I have child, Veronica, and she was born when I was 30 years old.  Two years after her birth, I finally decided to go for a career in teaching.  It took me five years to get a four-year degree because I was busy being Mom at the same time.  I drove school bus all 5 years and worked at Fred Meyer on the weekends.

            I graduated from Central Washington University, magna cum laude.  I substituted for 3 years in the Northshore School District before being hired at Lafayette in 1989.  I’ve had many learning opportunities since I have been with the Seattle Public Schools.

Those that have been the most significant have been the NUA training (reading and writing), DMR (mathematical thinking), travel classes, and teaching the science kits at the John Stanford Center.  There have been others, too numerous to list, but this always an interesting job and I feel greatly blessed to be in the teaching profession. 

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