Teacher Salute Erika Carstens

Melissa Forman salutes teacher Erika Carstens

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
And it is time.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
If you haven't heard, we've brought back our teacher salute.
Just go to ninety three nine light offm dot com
slash contest.

Speaker 1 (00:06):
Get an awesome teacher you know, nominated.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Could be passed President, could be staff member, administration, anything
relating to school.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
We love you, and they qualify with our.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Friends at Visit Florida to this amazing trip to the
Miami Beach Lotus Hotel. We do one teacher a month
plus get two hundred and fifty bucks.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
All right, right now, I am surprising someone.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Her name is Erica Carston's I believe she's a teacher
in Bourbonet.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
She later Jim, all right, how are you?

Speaker 3 (00:30):
I'm doing well.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
How about yourself? I doing great? So let's see you
teach at Bourbonet Upper Grade Center. What do you teach? Again?
I am a special led teacher. So what are the grades?
Are they on? Elementary at this building? It's junior high
at seventh and eighth grade? Oh okay, And then you
have a baby.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
I know you ran outside really quick and your baby's
inside you with your husband? Yeah, not alone?

Speaker 3 (00:54):
No, no, he's six months old.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
Oh yeah, and he's my little buddy. So I'm my
mommy says, to be on the phone, you have to go.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
Oh, so you're teaching, You're a mom, you're doing it all.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
And I heard you were very moved. You heard the
teacher salute, and you like you just thought it was
really nice. Huh.

Speaker 4 (01:11):
I did, Yeah, because nowadays, you know, all your hear
is about the negative things having to do with school
with teachers. So it's really refreshing and it's wonderful to
hear you know that people still do appreciate us.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
Because the recognition has sensed like the.

Speaker 4 (01:24):
Window that feels like, yeah, you know, it's like we
don't we don't need the pomp and circumstance, but just
to hear like, hey, we appreciate you.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
You see what you're doing, it means a lot. Yeah. Well,
I feel the same way, like in every job. The
fact that you called us, you left a message, it
was the sweetest thing.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
Everybody.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
You're like, I just couldn't heard this, and I thought
it was so sweet.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
Absolutely, because I love listening to the radio and I
listen to you guys all the time, I really do,
and so to hear how much you guys do for
the community and how much you just you reach out
to people, and you know, it resonates a lot, especially
with me. So you know, I definitely like to make
it known to people when they do that because it
is a big deal.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
I just want to let you know that that was
so many meaningful and we think part of being an
amazing teacher is somebody who gives positive feedback, who reaches
out who you know, passes it on, passes on the
good stuff.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
So, Erica Carston's from bourbon At. Guess what what you're
this week?

Speaker 4 (02:15):
Just so.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
Oh my gosh, you're going to make me cry. Thank
you so much.

Speaker 4 (02:27):
Oh my gosh, I'm legitimately crying right now.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
I cried when I got your voicemail. You know who
does that these days?

Speaker 2 (02:35):
You know what we need to reteach people about just
you know, giving away even a smile and a positive
thing instead of you know, a negative comment where you flip.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
It and you leave it there. You know, yes, absolutely, Well,
we're going to give you two hundred and fifty dollars.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Yay, oh my gosh, and my dear you qualify for
our big trip.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
Eager to do it this summer. We're going to the
Miami Beach.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
Low's hotel. I think you're the third one this month.
We'll do one more and then one teacher is gonna
go with us from the month.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
Okay, Oh my gosh, thank you so much. Oh my gosh,
that means so much, like you have no idea.

Speaker 3 (03:14):
It's been so rough, but like especially with a new baby.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
So thank you, thank you so much.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
Thank you Erica for being an amazing teacher and for
being an amazing human being.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
Again. Erica Carston's from bourbon Ay.

Speaker 4 (03:27):
This week's teachers, she so much, Oh my gosh,