She provides a highly engaging learning environment where students are constantly learning. Tricia’s classroom is constantly developing and evolving to meet the needs of students. She challenges students to meet their goals and then to storm past their goals. Tricia is a role model for her students as she is constantly learning and growing as a teacher and as a person. She is willing to try new strategies and is willing to let her students know when something doesn’t work. Tricia understands that a teacher is always teaching: In the classroom, in the hallway, in the car rider line and in the grocery store. She thoroughly gets the fact that she is teaching middle school students. She is not teaching language arts; she is teaching her students how to apply language arts to their everyday lives.