Teacher of the Week: Monica Perdomo

Our Teacher of the Week always knew she wanted to have a career in education ever since she was a little girl. Each day, Monica Perdomo gets to live out that childhood dream as an English teacher at North Wake College and Career Academy.
Posted 1/7/2026, 2:12:09 PM Updated 1/7/2026, 3:00:07 PM

Our teacher of the week always knew she wanted to

be a teacher and have a career in education ever

since she was a little girl

Now each day she gets to live out that childhood

dream as an English teacher at Norwood College Career Academy

If I'm acquainted with something then I'm familiar with it

Monica Podomo's story of becoming a teacher reads like a

novel that's about passion resilience and dedication flitting

What was the sentence for it After earning a college

scholarship to become a teacher she chose English as her

focus because of her love of reading

It's a lifelong skill that helps no matter what the

kids choose to do in life

They have to read

So I think this is the most like effective subject

area and that's that's what I've been doing

In your opinion is this a long article short article

mid Perdomo says every time she walks into her classroom

and has the opportunity to share the joys of English

literature with her students or discuss a book they've recently

read it gives her hope

It's about navigating information and connecting with it and learning

to

To um interpret it and have a voice about it

so when they're engaged in actually reading when you can

get high schoolers to read that's the best feeling

Her passion for English lit is matched only by her

background in dance as a former dance instructor movement is

like words in motion she shares with her students

Last year when we did the Hispanic Heritage Fair I

was actually the instructor teaching the whole school

How to dance bachata so dance is a part of

it um just those interpersonal skills which I think our

kids need and then reading it all comes together

Ms

Badomo you are WREL's teacher of the week

Give her a big round of applause

Congratulations

Her students were so happy for her

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