MINUTE WITH A TEACHER
Kathleen Gueringer
TEACHER, GRADES 8, 10 AND 12 ST. JOSEPH SCHOOL Q. How do you start your day? A.
Like most families, it is a mad rush for my husband and I to get everything together, get out the door on time, drop our son off at day care and for me to make it to school. The real start to my day comes at 8:05 every morning, when our whole school comes together to say our morning prayers. That’s when I am able to center myself to focus on what I am blessed with, think about what I need to do to help my students and school, and be grateful for being a part of a place that knows the importance of taking even a few minutes out of the day to bring it back to the Lord.
Q. What is your best workday? A. Aug. 16, the day my son becomes a fourth-generation St. Joseph Bulldog!
Q. Why I love working for my business: A. I love working for my “business” because for 138 years, St. Joseph School has been in the “business” of developing educated, community- and volunteeroriented, successful young ladies and gentlemen who put Christ first.
Q. What are the school’s best attributes?
A. St. Joseph School offers a high-quality private-school education at one of the
lowest and most affordable costs in the state of Arkansas, in addition to students who academically succeed at the college level in subject matters across the board, due to a staff of dedicated individuals with many years of experience and several with master’s degrees.
Q. Where would people find you on your days off, and what would you be doing?
A. On rare occasions, doing English-teacher kinds of things like attending the Arkansas Shakespeare Theater plays at the University of Central Arkansas, or the Ken Stamatis’ workshop So Many Books, So Little Time with my wonderful co-teachers Alicia Yrle and Jennifer Fullerton — but most days, I’m catching up with the Paw Patrol and Elmo with my rowdy 3-year-old son, or doing a do-it-yourself project with my husband. Like many English teachers, though, my days “off” are spent grading papers down at the school.