Amanda Shoe

Lindley Elementary School
Guilford County Schools
Greensboro, NC

Amanda Shoe teaches at Lindley Elementary School in Greensboro, North Carolina and received a PFA grant in 2001. Amanda is the kind of teacher every parent wants for his or her child. When you walk into her gymnasium at the school you will find the walls of her gym overflowing with motivational messages for students, promotional wall charts and wonderful exhibits of every students’ accomplishments. Amanda wrote to us in her nomination package, “to the world you may be just one, but to one you may be just the world, as a physical educator, among other roles, I have the opportunity to be 'the world' to my students and truly make a difference in their lives as well as the lives of others in our school community.” She lives this belief which she holds dear to her heart, and has become part of the fabric of the school, children’s lives, and the community, extending far beyond the classroom.

Amanda has packed a lifetime of teaching in her 3 short years at Lindley Elementary. In addition to running stellar physical education programming, her involvement includes but is not limited to: Serving as a member of the School Leadership Team, a sponsor of the Student Council, The Walk for Diabetes, Jump Rope for Heart, she organized the school’s first Jump Rope Team and Santa’s Workshop Toy Drive, serves on the School Health Committee, and she works with student interns from Greensboro College and the University of N. C. at Greensboro through her physical education classes. Amanda creates a fun and nurturing environment at her school for all her students to succeed with their physical goals and provides a role model of participation and expectation that bring out the very best in her students, colleagues and community. We did not have to look hard to know Amanda truly deserves of this All-Star Teacher Award! She was a “Shoe” in!

Amanda's Lesson Plans, Clubs, Games, and Teaching Philosophy