Harley Dupre is exuberant and joyful in her Southside High classroom. Her students call her corny, but she’s being authentic.
It’s her genuine nature, which greets students the moment they walk in the door, that allows students to come into her classroom, be comfortable with themselves and know they can do whatever they set their minds to, she said.
“If you get a relationship with the kids,” Dupre said, “they will exceed all expectations that you set for them and for themselves.”…