Cedar Springs — If it weren’t for the COVID-19 pandemic, Cedar Springs Middle School teacher Shaye Rogers may have never found her path to the front of the classroom.
But when she graduated college in 2020 with a degree in business management, the scarcity of employment opportunities forced her hand. She turned to subbing, and, finding she had a knack and a passion for education, pursued her master’s in education through an accelerated program at Aquinas College.
Now four years into her unexpected career choice — and three years into her tenure as an eighth-grade English language arts teacher at Cedar Springs — she’s settled into a rhythm…