Ashley Jolin: Simply Loving It.

Ashley Jolin, Voyager Elementary

“It’s truly wonderful having students who run into the classroom, with toothless grins, so ready to learn.”

If you believe that the first qualification for being an excellent educator is relishing the challenge and opportunity that is teaching, then Ashley Jolin is probably someone to whom you’d feel very comfortable sending your beloved five-year-old each school day.

After eight years teaching kindergarten at Voyager Elementary School, Mrs. Jolin continues to consider each day a privilege. “It’s brought me so much joy and laughter!” she says.  “It is truly wonderful having students who run into the classroom, with toothless grins, so ready to learn.  It is a welcome challenge each and every day to expand their horizons and teach them valuable lifelong lessons.  As a teacher of kindergartners, I feel that my most important objective is to create an environment that is full of energy, new wonders and love.”

Ashley adds,  “Watching my students leave for first grade feeling so great about themselves and their learning” tops her list of proudest teaching accomplishments.

Teaching kindergarten is a notoriously high-demand gig, but Mrs. Jolin somehow finds the energy to join her husband coaching 8th grade girls’ basketball in Livingston County.  “It is so much fun working with different ages of children” she gushes.  “I truly believe that working with kids allows me to have a world that is full of energy, new wonders, and love!”

It’s pretty obvious: Ashley Jolin has an attitude. Fortunately, it’s exactly the one you’d want your kindergartner to face each and every day, setting the stage for a dozen more positive and productive years of public education.