Henrico's Top Teachers - Isabel Ammendolia, Montrose Elementary School, fourth grade

Isabel Ammendolia was a shy child, keeping to herself most of the time. But when she learned how to read, her whole world changed. She might have been too intimidated to interact with others at school, but with her books, she could encounter all sorts of people and adventures. Now a fourth grade teacher at Montrose Elementary, Ammendolia gets to be the person who teaches her students how to read, broadening the worlds of other shy little kids. “With learning how to read and literacy skills in particular, I really think that students are owed that from their school system,”...

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