Each week, one or more site teachers of the year will be featured in the Moore American leading up to the district teacher of the year which will be announced in the spring.
This week, Patti Goodman, Wayland Bonds Elementary School, and Jerri Kilgore, Fairvew Elementary School, are featured.
Goodman was raised in south Oklahoma City and is a product of Moore Public Schools herself. She attended school at Sky Ranch, starting there in 1970. She attended Highland West Middle School, Moore West Mid-High and, finally, Moore High School.
She is a proud 1983 graduate, she said.
"My quality education and enjoyable experiences as a student in the Moore school district influenced me greatly to become a teacher," Goodman said.
She decided to choose a profession where she could do something she not only felt she had an aptitude for, but something she would enjoy on a daily basis. Elementary Education fit that bill.
Goodman graduated from Central State University in 1987, and one week later, married her high school sweetheart, Greg Goodman. They have two children, Jillian and Chandler.
She began her career in 1988 at Sky Ranch as a third grade teacher. Since then, she has taught third and sixth grade at Southgate-Rippetoe Elementary, sixth grade at Fairview Elementary and now teaches sixth grade math.
Kilgore has called Moore home for most of her life. She moved to the Moore area in third grade and attended Sky Ranch Elementary School.
After elementary school, she attended Moore West Junior High School and then graduated from Moore High School in 1981. After high school, she was a business owner of Gymnastics on Wheels mobile gymnastics for 14 years and taught more than 400 students in the greater Oklahoma City and Moore area.
Kilgore received her bachelor's of science in education at the University of Central Oklahoma in 2005. Since then she has taught sixth grade reading and languages arts at Fairview.
"I am married to Scott Kilgore and we have four amazing children," Kilgore said. "I could not imagine being in any other profession where I love working with students and outstanding professionals."
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