Meet Ms. Wright
MS. Wright
As a teacher, a person takes up the role of molding the relatively clay like minds of their students to take on the world that is soon to be at their disposal. To be free thinkers, or to follow the given path presented is something that a teacher has the power to influence in a student. After sitting down and talking to Jefferson English teacher, Ms. Wright I couldn’t help but feel that herself as an individual would influence her classes in the most positive way. At first glance, you can almost feel the overall creative vibe that she loves to see within her students. She is very welcoming to every type of person, herself being covered in tattoos and adorned in dark colored clothing. She is unique. It creates a sort of safe zone when talking to her that allows a person to think outside of the over-structured box that is being constantly shoved into our heads.
Ms. Wright is motivated by the creativity and outside thinking she can pull from her students. “It is that aha moment that my students have that really motivate me,” she stated in our interview. She later went on to explain how that “aha” moment her students show when writing is something that you never really see in adult writing. That the creative thinking of high school juniors and seniors is this precious gift that encompasses the most powerful messages. Her classes’ creativity and enthusiasm to push the boundary on the bland thinking patterns that overrule the world we are about to enter is something that excites and motivates her to teach. Her favorite books to read include the ones that make you think, and send you on a journey that is accompanied with the never answered question of, “what if?”.
Along with thinking outside the box, Ms. Wright hopes to pass along a good work ethic to her students. “My dad really stressed having a strong work ethic when I was growing up.” Ms. Wright said. When asking her about how she decided to be a teacher, she also included that her father was a teacher, and she went on to explain how both of her parents instilled the central idea of working hard for something that you want. These are things that as we advance into the adult world will help to change our lives, and control whatever path we end up on. Hard work is the main focus that she kept in order to gain her Master’s degree in English at Portland State. You can’t help but feel in her class that if we work hard, then it will be easier to have pride in what we do. It is a constant message that is foreshadowed in her lessons that are creating these free thinking, boundary pushing Jefferson alumni.
Ms. Wright may be a teacher here at Jefferson, but she is a conductor of the free thinkers preparing to enter the adult world. The passion to help us be creative and break boundaries is what she teaches. It is her students that will have the power to revolutionize the world as we enter the scene after high school. So disregard the predisposition about how boring your English class is going to be, and keep an open mind, because Ms. Wright’s class is really the right class.
