“I am a 20-year veteran in CPS. This is my first year being a self-contained teacher. As expected after the past two years of COVID teaching, I was nervous and scared to be doing something so different from what I was used to doing. Amira was a Godsend. I am old enough to be her mother and have children of my own her age so imagine how odd it was for me to have her as a mentor. She was not told to be my mentor, she saw that I was really nervous about teaching phonetic/Wit and Wisdom and just took me under her wing. She was my teacher, my cheerleader and became a friend. She is an amazing teacher always puts her students’ needs and wants above everything else. She is the chair of our Garden Club and does an amazing job getting our community involved with it. She is just an amazing teacher and human being.”
- Stacey Loukoumidis, Second Grade Teacher, John P. Parker School