The first Teacher of the Week for the 2016-2017 school year is Mrs. Glass. Mrs. Glass is a first-year, Reel History and American Government teacher at Greenwood. However, if she wasn’t a teacher she would choose to be involved in criminal law, either being a criminal profiler or lawyer.  She also co-sponsors Kentucky Youth Assembly (KYA) and is the main sponsor for Kentucky United Nations Assembly (KUNA), a club which is new to Greenwood, this year.

Mrs. Glass was inspired to become a teacher because she wanted to “do something with her life that gave back and make a difference that she could look back on and see her contribution to the world.” She loves coming to work and seeing her students each day, especially when she gets to see her students have “lightbulb moments”. Mondays are hard because she has to get back into the rhythm of the week after having a weekend break.

The best qualities that a student can have, in Mrs. Glass’ opinion, are: optimism, endurance, and teachability, or a willingness to learn regardless of the level of learning you are at. She finds a “willingness to to see successes and not the current struggles” and even pushing past the current struggles regardless of what is in the way to be an honorable quality of not only students but everyone in the world as well.

Her favorite thing to do outside of school is to spend time with her family, read, hike, camp, play board games and volleyball, watch the Dallas Cowboys movies. Two surprising facts about Mrs. Glass that you may not know is that she was born in Texas and moved to Kentucky in her senior year of high school and she also has a twin brother named John.