<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=25lrv9_1H4FtjUT00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=25lrv9_1H4FtjUT00" width="1600" height="900" ><figcaption>Heidi Laux (Gray News)</figcaption></figure><p>JACKSON, Tenn. (WBBJ) - Heidi Laux, a upper school science teacher and cheer coach at Trinity Christian Academy, has been named this week’s Educator of the Week, an award sponsored by the Tennessee Education Lottery.</p><p>Laux is in her 18 year of teaching.</p><p>“My word. I don’t know if I should be terrified. I’m so thankful for one. I’m so thankful. Definitely caught me off guard. There are no words to describe how this makes me feel. It makes it all worth it,” said Laux.</p><h2>From nursing to teaching</h2><p>Laux said her career path didn’t start off with becoming a teacher but rather a registered nurse.</p><p>“I’m actually a registered nurse also. So in between the two, I got my teaching degree, taught, then I worked at the hospital for a long time and then God brought me here to this fabulous facility,” Laux said.</p><p>She said there’s nothing like teaching. </p><p>“I’ve always loved everything about it and at one point God called me to nursing and then brought me back around to teaching. There’s nothing like it,” Laux said. “There is nothing like the feeling you get and the connection you get with parents, teachers that you work with, the students specifically. And just to see that long-term effect that you can have on life and how you can instill God into everything that you’re teaching them and they can take that with them and you watch them grow is just there’s nothing like that.”</p><h2>Time with students</h2><p>Laux said her favorite thing about teaching is being able to interact with the children. </p><p>“The interaction with the kids, there’s nothing like it. They bless me as much as I hope I bless them. Those are the things that make it matter when you know that they carry what you are teaching them with you, not just a subject, but life lessons as well,” she said. </p><p>She said her proudest moments are seeing where her students end up.</p><p>“Some of the things that I’m most proud of when I think about being a teacher and all the students that I’ve taught is seeing where they end up when they reach back out to me or run into them in town and they tell me where they are and how their time with me has impacted their life in the long run and how they got where they are. I love to see that,” Laux said.</p><h2>Making lessons memorable</h2><p>A classroom may be for learning, but Laux said she likes to make it fun.</p><p>“I like to relate everything back to how it affects them, and I like to come up with stupid, silly sayings that help them remember. An oddly enough, day one they can remember these silly things that I have told them and not forget the information,” she said.</p><h2>How to vote and nominate</h2><p>Laux will be eligible for the Tennessee Education Lottery Educator of the Month award in January. To vote for Laux or any other nominees, visit the Tennessee Education Lottery website.</p><p>To nominate an educator and review the official rules, visit wbbjtv.com/educator.</p></div></body>

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JACKSON, Tenn. (WBBJ) - Heidi Laux, a upper school science teacher and cheer coach at Trinity Christian Academy, has been named this week’s Educator of the Week, an award sponsored by the Tennessee Education Lottery. Laux is in her 18 year of teaching. “My word. I don’t know if...

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JACKSON, Tenn. (WBBJ) - Heidi Laux, a upper school science teacher and cheer coach at Trinity Christian Academy, has been named this week’s Educator of the

Educator of the Week: Heidi Laux

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