Henrico's Top Teachers - Alayna Tignor, Holman Middle School, family and consumer science

Each morning at the start of class, middle school teacher Alayna Tignor will play the “Affirmation Song” by Snoop Dogg and have her sixth and seventh grade students sing along. “Today is going to be an amazing day!” the students recite, some reluctantly. “My feelings matter! I get better every single day! I choose to feel happy!” Positive affirmations are a large part of Tignor’s “Teen Living” class at Holman Middle School, which resembles a home economics course where teens learn life skills like cooking, laundry, sewing, and budgeting. Middle school is an interesting age – often a tumultuous one...

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