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[Ms. Lucas to Students] What is the opposite
of division?

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[Students] Multiplication.

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[Ms. Lucas] Multiplication...

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I'm MULTiplying by a positive, real quick.

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She has a relationship with every one of her
students, but also students that aren't even

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in her class.

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Students want to be in her class.

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They'll come and go, "Can I be in her class?"
even though they've had Algebra I already.

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So, she's just a positive role-model, not
just for our students, but for teachers...

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and she inspires me, as a leader, to be the
best I can be every day.

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She's very joyful.

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She never really gets angry.

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She doesn't really, she doesn't ever raise
her voice at the students.

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She's... pretty cheerful teacher.

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Around the class she's always joyful.

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She doesn't really, like... if you need help,
she'll come help you immediately, you know,

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she's an all-around good teacher.

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She's fun.

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She makes learning fun.

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[Ms. Lucas, teaching] ...and we're gonna flip
it...

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♫ Dun duh dun, dun dun dun ♫

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I love helping kids, 'cause... going off to

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college, you know, you were deciding what
to be when you get older, and I found myself

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just helping people with their math work while
I was in college.

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So, I said, "you know, I should be a math teacher."

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I've been teaching for almost fifteen years,
and I just recently relocated from Liberty,

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Missouri, here to Huntsville, Alabama, and
teaching at Grissom's been great.

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We are one tiger with many stripes.

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The kids are wonderful. I mean, kids are kids no matter where you are in the country...

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and the staff, there are great support staff,
and so I'm happy to be a Grissom Tiger.

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[Alandris] She explains everything clearly.

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She knows what she's doing.

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She makes sure we understand everything that
she's talking about, and she'll come around

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and check with us, and make sure that we're
getting the lesson and stuff like that.

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[Ethan] She like, all around the classroom,
she like sings and stuff, and like, if you

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don't know how to do it she'll come and she will sit there, and drill you and drill you until you do it, and every

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day she's available in Tiger Time, which is
like an hour period we have thirty minutes

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for whatever and thirty minutes for lunch,
and she's always available then and I've gone

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a few times and just talked to her... and
she's just a good person all-around.

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♫ Ya' gotta flip, huh, ya' gotta flip. ♫

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Straight...

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Kids are kids.

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They love tender, loving care, and... key
thing is three R's - want to be real, want

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to be content relevant, and build positive
relationships.

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They're looking for the real deal.

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Our actions, then, speak louder than our words.

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[Ms. Ballentine] It's not just the relationships
that she builds with students, but relationships

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she's built with teachers.

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This is just her second year at Grissom High
School, and she's positive.

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Her energy is so... growing, and she's so
enthusiastic, and you can walk in and, you

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know, just have one of those days... and the
moment you see her, it's like a ray of sunshine.

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[Ethan] She makes it where it's a good learning
environment.

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You've got friends that you can talk to and
can help you, and ya'll can teach each other,

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and if ya'll don't know it then she'll come
help you.

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All-around great person.

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