Tammy Hoidal

		Teacher First - Second Grade

While Mrs. Westra was out on maternity leave during the fall of 2008, Mrs. Hoidal taught the third-fifth graders. When Mrs. Westra's maternity leave ended, Mrs. Hoidal and Mrs. Westra co-taught with Mrs. Hoidal teaching on Fridays. At the end of the 2009 - 2010 academic year, when Ms. White retired from teaching full-time, Mrs. Hoidal was hired to take over for her. Currently, she and Ms. White share the position of lead teacher in the First - Second Grade room. Now, Mrs. Hoidal works four days a week and Ms. White works one.

Mrs. Hoidal has known all her life that she wanted to be a teacher. In fact, she had a tree house school when she was a child. When she was a Senior at Lake Region High School, she had the opportunity to experience teaching when she participted in an experimental program there. Instead of having a study hall, she got to teach first grade. Since then she has had a variety of teaching experiences in Exeter, New Hampshire, Beverly Hills, California and most recently the Lake Region School District in Naples. She stopped teaching two years ago when her twins were born.

When asked what's been different about teaching here, she related the experience of her first field trip to Second Wind Farm when she was very concerned about the students staying safely in a single-file line only to find there was no traffic. She says the smallness of the school allows for lots of hands-on learning experiences. She added that this is the first time she's ever had hot lunch every day, and she says it's the best commute she's ever had!

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