“Wittenberg found the motivation in me. To this day, my ultimate goal is to open my own school.”
Kyle Powers ’17
Teacher
“First semester freshman year I took an education class with Dr. Yontz. We looked at school systems in places like where I came from in Indiana — very urban, very rough schooling. Our final project was to figure out how we would make it better. Getting to say, ‘Okay, this is how I would change the system,’ ignited something in me. Now I’m the third grade teacher whose class is on top of our chairs acting like pilots, doing multiplication chants. I want to be the principal in the lobby greeting my students every single morning. Wittenberg found the motivation in me. To this day, my ultimate goal is to open my own school.”
Kyle Powers ’17 has been a teacher since graduating from Wittenberg, first in Ohio and now in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He majored in early childhood education, joined a fraternity, and was elected Homecoming King — all to his surprise.
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