Daphne Hrib

Tell us why you became a teacher

I was a curious little girl that met some french people in my hometown and wanted to learn their language When I started learning french, I realized there was a better way to teach it. I thought that I could teach it better so I did for sixteen years.

Tell us about your most memorable teaching experience

One of my most memorable teaching experiences is from my first few years of teaching. I taught french and spanish connections classes at the middle school. During the month of october, I would dress up like a skeleton and we would learn how to dance for day of the dead celebrations. The students loved the dancing and I also transformed my room into mexico.We had an ofrienda , we made tissue paper flowers, and I even brought in sand and allowed the students to dig up artifacts that I had obtained

What would you do with the $25,000?

Truthfully, probably turn around and spend most of it on things for my classroom and students. I am really bad about spending a lot on my students. But I do have three children who would really love to go on a trip or have their mother dote on them with a little of this twenty five thousand. I won't even talk about the fact that that would pay for new flooring.In my house, which would be fantastic.