After being the leader of her daughter’s Girl Scout troop, Amy Wagner-Texley, a new Physical Science teacher this year, found that there was a big gap when it came to girls’ knowledge of science, and it made her want to become a teacher.
“I found out that [the girls] just really didn’t know anything about science,” Wagner-Texley said. “And I felt like my daughter and all of her friends just really needed that influence from a woman to show them that science is for girls.”
After working at a middle school, Wagner-Texley decided to come to GEHS for her sixth year of teaching.
“This is my sixth year [teaching],” Wanger Texley said. “[I came] most recently from Lawrence at Liberty Memorial Central Middle School.”
Wagner-Texley decided to switch from middle school to high school after missing the high school kids and seeing the great opportunity GEHS had.
“I really missed teaching at the high school level,” Wagner-Texley said. “Gardner [also] has a great reputation as being a very good school with great kids. And so, I just saw that as a great opportunity when they advertised the job.”
Wagner-Texley went to Emporia State University for college and got a bachelor’s in marketing before getting her teaching license. She later went to seminary and got her Masters of Divinity degree.
“I spent time as a hospice chaplain and then decided that I wanted to go ahead and get my teaching license,” Wagner-Texley said.
While Wagner-Texley is not involved in any school clubs as of now, she may become a part of Anime Club, Tabletop Club, or another club sometime in the future.
“If there was something that was creative, I would probably want to do that. Sew, knit, crochet, paint, [I] do a lot of creative things,” Wagner-Texley said. “So, if there was something that did that I would be interested in joining them.”
