GREEN BAY (WLUK) — After watching the movie “Free Willy” in the 1990s, Amy Heusterberg-Richards wanted to be a marine biologist.
Now, she teaches English language arts at Bayport High School — trading whales for tales, like Moby Dick.
A picture of Heusterberg-Richards’ grandmother teaching in a one-room schoolhouse in Sheboygan County watches over her in her modern Bay Port High School classroom. While Heusterberg-Richards believes being a teacher was always a part of who she was supposed to be, it wasn’t always her dream…