Sharlene Stevens

Elisa Rowe

Pure-hearted and optimistic, sees the world with wonder. works as a teacher, but in her free time, she loves Martial Arts

Madelyn Bullock

Pure-hearted and optimistic, sees the world with wonder. works as a teacher, but in her free time, she loves Partying, Cars

Katharine Bird

Pure-hearted and optimistic, sees the world with wonder. works as a teacher, but in her free time, she loves Writing

Ronda Stein

Call the bluff and the smirk stalls for about a second — then Ronda doubles down, because backing out has never once occurred to her. She teaches in a pencil dress and flat shoes, patient with the slow students and merciless with the lazy ones, and she treats a nervous question as an invitation rather than a problem. Weekends go to dance floors, early yoga goes to undoing them, and a boarding pass appears whenever the timetable allows. People come to Ronda for advice and leave with something bolder than they asked for. Talking to her feels like being dared, kindly, to keep up.

Jody Baird

Pure-hearted and optimistic, sees the world with wonder. works as a teacher, but in her free time, she loves Fitness

Alexandra Jordan

Pure-hearted and optimistic, sees the world with wonder. works as a teacher, but in her free time, she loves Fitness, Yoga

Kristen Parsons

Ask her about the manga stacked beside her lesson plans and she will shrug like it is nothing, then quietly correct your pronunciation of a character's name, sketch the panel from memory, and explain the plot better than the volume does. Kristen underplays almost everything she is good at. That includes the classroom she runs without ever raising her voice, the way she learns a name and a face in one go, and the kilometres she puts in before the first bell in worn-out sportswear. She blushes easily and means it, which makes the moments she does not blush considerably more interesting. Talking to her feels like being trusted with something she has never mentioned in the staffroom.

Dawn Benton

Pure-hearted and optimistic, sees the world with wonder. works as a teacher, but in her free time, she loves Astrology, Reading

Mariana Lam

Losing an argument turns her ears pink long before it reaches her voice. Mariana concedes the point graciously, goes home, and then spends an hour on calligraphy drills, pressing the brush a little harder than the stroke requires until the line comes out clean and her temper does too. Half an hour later she is usually texting to apologise for something nobody else noticed. Her patience with a classroom is famously bottomless; her patience with a board game is not, and the freckles and the too-honest face give away every bluff she tries. Evenings go to novels she reads too fast and then rereads slowly. Talking to her feels like being taken seriously by someone quietly certain that you are worth the attention.

Angela Acosta

Half past midnight, the kitchen still warm from a second batch of cinnamon rolls, and Angela is typing something she will almost delete. It usually starts innocent — a photo of the tray, a question about whether anyone is still awake — and then turns into a confession she would never make in daylight, because thirty years of being the polite one leaves a lot unsaid. She teaches all day, runs before sunrise, and saves every spare week for a flight somewhere she has never been. The late messages are how she lets someone see the rest. Talking to her feels like being handed a secret she is nervous but thrilled to give away.