Local Teacher Wins Trip To Orlando

Our LiteFM teachers' contest is coming to an end and we give another trip away.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Six point seven Light FM, Jack and Nina Hey. Throughout
the school year, we want to thank some of the
local area's best teachers for all their hard work and
give him a chance to win a fantastic vacation to Orlando, Florida,
three nights at KREB broy L Orlando and a day
Discovery Cove. Well, it's the end of the school year
and Cubby and Christine talked to this year's final winner.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Hello, Alexa, Yeah, good morning. It's Kubby, Christine and producer Christen.
We're from light FM and we're calling you nice and early.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
How are you good? How are you? We're good? Are
you aware of your nomination that you got?

Speaker 2 (00:35):
I have a little idea about it, all right, So
we have a big contest here at LIGHTFM. We've been
doing it all school year long, where people can go
to our website lightfm dot com and just to write
a nice little story about a teacher doing fantastic things.
And Alexa, you are getting rave reviews by your mom,
of all people.

Speaker 4 (00:56):
So Alexa, your first grade teacher. You're in Comack, New York,
and we understand that you're highly requested by students and
parents because you have a really positive, upbeat personality, and
you get very involved with your students. Your mom says
that oftentimes you take requests to take the students who
need a little more attention or are facing bigger challenges

(01:18):
and go one on one and spend extra time with them,
just like volunteering your time like that after school. That's
really incredible of you.

Speaker 5 (01:25):
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (01:26):
Yeah, I always.

Speaker 5 (01:27):
Find like myself drawn to those kind of students.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
Oh yeah, and what's the name of your school where
you teach?

Speaker 1 (01:32):
Name? Rolling Hill?

Speaker 2 (01:34):
Now is it true you won the Founder's Day Award?
What is the Founder's Day Award?

Speaker 5 (01:39):
So that's connected to like the PTA, which is all
the parents and the school kind of come together. So
the parents in the community nominate a teacher each year
that they feel kind of went above and beyond, and
then they get the Founder's Day Award.

Speaker 4 (01:54):
Wow you congratulations.

Speaker 3 (01:56):
Yeah, you really go the extra mile.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
And finally, what fuels you know, like early in the morning,
like right now, what gets you going and motivated to
walk into that classroom? Is it just every day's different
kind of feeling? Is the power you have of teaching
these young minds? What goes through your mind when you
wake up every day.

Speaker 5 (02:15):
Yeah, there's definitely never a boring day. But I just
feel like sometimes, depending on what the students have going
on at home, I feel like school can be their
safe place for those seven hours. So just being the
person that they can trust to love them and care
for them for those seven hours at school and makes
them feel comfortable is probably the most important thing to me.

Speaker 4 (02:36):
Oh that's incredible. Well, Alexa, we can see why your
mom nominated you and why so many people love you,
and that's why congratulations, you are our winner. You have
won a three night's day yes at Caree Broyale Orlando,
and two passes to Discovery Cove.

Speaker 5 (02:53):
Oh my god, thank you so much.

Speaker 4 (02:55):
Uh huh.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
And you're gonna be hanging out with a bunch of
other teachers, so y'all can just you know, make lesson
plan together.

Speaker 3 (03:01):
That's right, it's all over though. You ready for a
summer vacation?

Speaker 5 (03:06):
Yes, coming up?

Speaker 3 (03:07):
Absolutely well.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
Congratulations from all of us here at Light FM, and
thank you for all you do.

Speaker 5 (03:12):
Thank you so much. It's awesome.

Speaker 4 (03:14):
Thank you.