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My name is Brett La Bissoniere. I teach&nbsp;
7th grade science at West Ridge Middle School.&nbsp;&nbsp;

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Brett is one of the most selfless people i've ever&nbsp;
met. She truly wishes to serve her whole community&nbsp;&nbsp;

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and she gives her time and energy freely. I think&nbsp;
if Brett had a superpower it would be to make&nbsp;&nbsp;

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everyone in the world happy. Whether that's&nbsp;
her students or everyone who works with her&nbsp;&nbsp;

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or just everyone around her. She wants everyone&nbsp;
to be successful and happy and honestly I think&nbsp;&nbsp;

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that is her superpower. In my class I really try&nbsp;
to make sure that by the end of the year they love&nbsp;&nbsp;

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science but they also understand who they are&nbsp;
and what they're good at and I think watching&nbsp;&nbsp;

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every single student grow in their confidence,&nbsp;
grow in their self-awareness, that's my favorite&nbsp;&nbsp;

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part of teaching and that's what makes me feel&nbsp;
like every single day I make an impact and&nbsp;&nbsp;

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a lot of professions you don't see that every&nbsp;
single day. The way that Miss La Bissoniere&nbsp;&nbsp;

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connects with students is that she also talks&nbsp;
about their interests like what they like and&nbsp;&nbsp;

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connects it to like the lesson. I told her&nbsp;
that I wanted to be a therapist for children&nbsp;&nbsp;

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and she was like well we do learn about like&nbsp;
the brain, the feelings and all that so I just&nbsp;&nbsp;

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really liked her from the start. What makes&nbsp;
Miss La Bissoniere special is that she always&nbsp;&nbsp;

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greets me with a great big smile. I think she&nbsp;
really made science fun this year. I think&nbsp;&nbsp;

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she's the most caring teacher ever and I think&nbsp;
she deserved the teacher of the year. 

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