NAME:
Mrs. Vickie Wright
SCHOOL:
Executive mini school
CLASS:
8th grade language arts
SCHOOL PHONE:
615-758-5152
Welcome to my page! I am the English teacher for the Executive mini school
at West Wilson Middle School. This is my nineteenth year to teach, and I
love my profession. In fact, this is my second career. My first career was
in retail management. I worked for Castner-Knott, a division of Mercantile
Stores, Inc., for fifteen years before I became a teacher. Even though I
liked retail, I love being an educator. My undergraduate degree is from
Belmont College; my Masters degree is from Trevecca Nazarene University.
However, I have also taken graduate courses at Belmont, TSU, and Vanderbilt
University. Some other accomplishments of mine are being named a Mandel
Fellow with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, a recipient of the
Belz-Lipman Holocaust Educator of the Year Award, Rotary Teacher of the Year
for our school, a participant of the Tennessee Governor's Academy for
Teachers of Writing, and a graduate of the Poetry Alive! Institute for
Educators. I have also completed the Gateway training in English II.
Currently I am part of our school's steering committee for the Making Middle
Grades Work initiative, a school improvement plan. Three times my peers have
honored me by naming me West Wilson Middle School's Teacher of the Year.
I love school, and I also love being in a classroom full of eighth graders.
Young people are very, very important to me. Reading, writing, and
communicating well are extremely useful skills, and learning is a lifelong
endeavor that should be enjoyable. Although,I think learning should be
fun,I take my job very seriously. You see, I regard this as my calling. A
calling is something very different from a mere job. Everyday I try to do
my best as an educator and a professional. Hours (and hours!) outside of
school are spent in seminars, workshops, and at conferences to become a
better teacher to benefit my students. Letting my students know these
things helps them to understand why I do some of the things I do or set the
standards I have in my classroom. I respect my students as individuals with
a wide range of abilities, talents, needs, and interests. Student time and
class time are precious commodities and should be treated as such. Our
state and county school systems have high expectations for both of us.
Working together, we can achieve these and be successful. If you ever need
my help or assistance, please don't hesitate to contact me. Here's to a
great year!
Our school's mission-- "in partnership with parents and the community, West
Wilson Middle School will create a culture in which all students are
actively engaged in rigorous, relevant learning." In order to be truly
successful in today's competitive world, our students must be competent,
effective communicators. To accomplish this students must be able to write
and speak correctly and well. This is the mission of our class.
