Leatrice D. Williams, an educator with over thirty years of experience, has taught grades three through eight. She served as teachers' union president for eight years and participated in several district committees. After a year and a half of retirement, she returned as a long-term substitute for the business class at the middle school. She continued for the next two years as a coordinator for the Explore and Physical Education teams, providing support to other grade-level teachers.Over the two and a half years since returning to the district, they experienced education during the COVID pandemic, which transformed our educational environment, just as society itself did. Teaching students was challenging because teachers had to instruct them both online and in person simultaneously. By the middle of the third quarter of the second year, the school reopened for students full-time.