Shelby Buxton
Wearing an Earth Day shirt, and matching globe earrings, Shelby Buxton is the newest sixth grade Arlington Middle School STEM teacher. She constructs a problem solving space in her classroom where the students aren’t afraid to ask for help.
Shelby Buxton grew up in Bartlett, Tennessee. She studied at Murray State University and decided to start her teaching career off with a middle school education degree. Her hobbies are running and reading.
Ms. Buxton cares a lot about the world around us. Her toughest moments as a teacher is knowing that she can’t care for the student’s out-of-school problems. “That really is tough mentally, you know, knowing that I can’t fix all their problems I can only fix what I see and what I can fix during the school day.”
She wants to be the best teacher she can, “so if I want to be the best, I have to surround myself with the best.” The thing she enjoys the most about teaching are her kids, “regardless of whether or not I walk in with a bad attitude or what. My kids always know exactly how to make my day better.”
Ms. Buxton has a perfect personality for teaching. She cares deeply about her students and the world around us. This is her second year ever teaching.
Ms. Buxton loves the community here at Arlington, she thinks of it as a family all around, not just in school. “Arlington just seems like a community and a family all around not just at this building.”
Amy Webb
Arlington High School
Many teachers begin their career path going straight into a school. For Amy Webb, she did not originally plan on being involved in the classroom. Amy Webb is the newest English teacher at Arlington High School.
Amy Webb began the first 20 years of her career in the finance industry, working and eventually becoming a Credit Union Manager. “I decided to change direction, I went into school finance and school business and then decided I wanted to move into the classroom.” This is Mrs. Webb’s third year of teaching. Mrs. Webb explained that she started teaching to give back to students,
Mrs. Webb attended Mississippi State University, Northwest Mississippi Community College, and University of Tennessee at Martin. She earned her Associate’s degree in Accounting, her Bachelor’s in Business Administration and Marketing, and Masters of Science and Education.
Mrs. Webb is a passionate individual, and it translates into her 11th grade English class at Arlington. She loves reading and hopes that it feeds into each student. “I hope all of my students learn to love reading a little bit more than they did when they started school this year. I hope that they reach the goals they have set for themselves most importantly, because my goal is not a student’s goal. I am very passionate about kids being successful. I want to make sure that passes onto kids.”
If Mrs. Webb could teach her students one thing, it would be “Always do your best. In whatever it is you’re doing, always, always, do your best.”