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= = = = = **Welcome to My Wiki!** = My name is Dr. Lester, and I am a high school Spanish teacher in the Cherokee County School District and part-time professor of TESOL in the Inclusive Education Department at Kennesaw State University. I have been an language instructor, classroom teacher, and teacher educator for the past thirteen years. I have taught Spanish and ESOL classes in Georgia and Florida. I look forward to this academic school year and working with my students as we expand our knowledge of language learning.

= Educational Background = Ph.D. - University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida M.A. - Florida International University, Miami, Florida B.A. - University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia **Teaching Philosophy** My goal is to maximize the potential of each of my students. I meet this goal through a process of dialogic learning based in the ethic of care and contemplative teaching.

Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong. --Lao Tzu (600 B.C.)

**Motivation/Inspiration** Be Water My Friend Be Great, Powerful Beyond Measure

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