Outstanding Substitute Teachers!

STEDI.org would like to recognize the following fantastic substitute teachers for their outstanding contributions to the education of our students! You can nominate an Outstanding Substitute Teacher by sending an email to info@stedi.org and explain who your outstanding substitue teacher is and why they are great!

Mrs. Vivian Huntington

Tammany Parish, Louisiana

Mrs. Vivian Huntington is an exceptional substitute teacher; she works for Slidell High School in St. Tammany Parish located in Louisiana. Mrs. Huntington is reliable and fair and can be counted on to do an excellent job in the classroom. Mrs. Huntington implements whatever lesson plans or directions are left by the teacher. She also follows up the next day with the classroom teacher with any problems or questions. Teachers and students know that when Mrs. Huntington is the substitute for the day, all classroom and school rules are enforced and respected. Mrs. Huntington cares about the students, and in a very admirable way, she manages to get the students to achieve success because they feel her caring attitude. Mrs. Huntington has been seen pulling duty for teachers just because "they needed a break", they were sick, or just to do a kind deed. She told a teacher in the cafeteria one day, "Go rest, you must be tired. I will take your duty."

The students really like and respect her; a student was trying to give her a hard time in the classroom; the other students remarked, "that’s not cool, dude, it’s Mrs. Huntington!" After Katrina when there was a freeze on hiring substitutes, Mrs. Huntington volunteered---almost everyday! She was so concerned about the staff’s ability to rebuild homes and lives, and in fact offered teachers who could not find housing in Slidell to stay with her. Mrs. Huntington is a very special person, professionally and personally, with an incredible spirit to always help educate our students and support the Slidell High staff.

Becky Anthony

Cabot School District, Arkansas

The next outstanding substitute teacher is Becky Anthony. Becky has been a sub for Cabot School District in Arkansas since January 2002. In that time she has worked almost daily. She has two children at home and lost her husband this last year. Becky is always available and never turns me down when she is called. If the teacher who is absent hasn't had time to leave lesson plans, Becky has been subbing long enough, she can teach the class and keep them on the same schedule as the rest of that grade. She knows ninety percent of our students by their first name and what grade and class they are.

While she is free, she comes in the office to see if there is anything we need to be done. The days that there are no teachers absent, Becky comes in to volunteer for the odd jobs that the teachers or office need to be done. All in all, Becky Anthony is an essential part of Ward Central Elementary School.

Mrs. Jean Borriello

Hernando County, Florida

When Mrs. Jean Borriellos' youngest child started Grade K, she then started substituting at J.D. Floyd Elementary. This is her 4th year as a substitute and she is wonderful; she is very flexible and always available to help where and when needed. The teachers here enjoy having her in their classroom to cover for them when they are going to be absent.

Mrs. Borriello loves the Pre-K students so much that even on the days that she is not working she stops by the Pre-K rooms to visit her "little friends" as she calls them. When not covering in a classroom, she covers 90% of all scheduled staffings and works in the front office by answering phones and attending to the parents/persons entering the front office.

Whenever Mrs. Borriello is covering staffings, there is no need to worry; she will be there to help where needed. Even when she covers in a classroom, she still comes to the front office to help when she is free; also, on the days that she doesn't work, she comes in every afternoon about one and a half hour before dismissal to pick up two of her children that still attend here; and she helps in the front office with the phones and with dismissal, until her children are dismissed. She does an awesome job!