Yoshira Escamilla was student-teaching at McNary Heights Elementary School in Umatilla when she was asked to take over a kindergarten classroom in the middle of the school year.
That was January 2021, and Escamilla has been teaching ever since. Now she’s leading a new class of kindergarteners, next door to Ann Johnson — the same longtime kindergarten teacher she learned from as a 5-year-old.
“It’s really awesome,” Escamilla said. “I go down there if I ever have questions, she helps me out a lot too, and so does the whole team.”
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