“Exceptional” profiles

Holly Klotz considers herself very fortunate to have grown up in Hawaii and California. Her father served in the Navy and was stationed at Pearl Harbor, and her parents got married at the Pearl Harbor […]

Jessica Lucke grew up in Willis, just south of Ann Arbor, and graduated from Lincoln Consolidated Schools in 2010. She earned her associate’s degree from Washtenaw Community College and her bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education […]

Huron High School school nurse Ann Burdick grew up in Toledo. She and her three brothers and three sisters were raised by educators; her father taught high school history, then was a high school guidance […]

Pittsfield Elementary Teacher Assistant Linda Clark grew up in Fenton, before attending the University of Arizona where she studied Animal Science/Wildlife Biology. She spent most of her adult years in northern Michigan, residing in Boyne […]

Pioneer High School science teacher Kirsten Workman was born in Massachusetts and moved to Michigan in the first grade. She is the oldest of five siblings. Her father is an engineer and her mother was […]