Saving the oak trees on campus is another project she feels strongly about, so she is helping raise funds to protect them. In addition, she is a supporter of the Louisiana Resource Center for Educators, a library of video recordings, lesson plans, educational software and books that may be checked out by teachers of kindergarten through grade 12 for use in their classrooms. I taught special education the first five years of teaching. I started teaching in Brewerton, N.Y., a small community, at the elementary school and the middle school. When the Emmerts lived in Illinois, she taught emotionally disturbed middle-school children.
Many kids come from dysfunctional homes.
Middle school is difficult enough for kids with normal backgrounds. When they are middle-school age and emotionally disturbed, they really have problems. I get a twinge when I think about teaching. I miss the relationship with the kids. Emmert attended the University of Washington and graduated from University of Colorado, but it was when she was a student at Fife High School in Fife, Wash., that she met her future husband.