Medina Valley ISD's teacher uses personal experience to fuel her mission as bilingual teacher

SAN ANTONIO — The sacrifice of leaving it all behind for a better life is a story many in the San Antonio community know firsthand. teacher who has drawn on her experience as inspiration to help her students, teaching them that education is the key to their futures. She's the winner of this week's KENS 5 EXCEL Award, and was surprised with a $1,000 check from our partners at Credit Human.

They worked multiple jobs to make end's meet and ensure their five children received a good education, something the parents did not have growing up. Robertson's family, who are also mostly educators, beamed with pride as they joined students and staff at LaCoste Elementary to watch her be surprised with the EXCEL Award.“Especially now, after my dad's passing,” an emotional Robertson added."It's just something that he always said to us: 'Always together.' And so anything that we do, we always do it together."“Same mentality with my students: Anything that we do, we're going to do it together.

Robertson splits her day in half. First, she gives her instructions in one language, then switches to the other. She gives that same love and attention to her special education students. Robertson's 26-year-old autistic brother has been her motivation.

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