Ms. Nguyen is a math teacher at Centreville High School, where she’s taught for a total of 5 years. This is her third year teaching officially, and before that she took two years of internships. She got her masters at James Madison, and got her major in mathematics and her minor in secondary education. Ms. Nguyen taught at South County Middle School and Woodson High School before she came to Centreville. 

She wanted to be a teacher for most of her life, but at a time wanted to be a social worker. She realized the path was not for her and settled on being a teacher. She then wanted to be an art teacher but said “Then I realized I was not good at art. So then I was like, ‘what am I kinda good at?’ I wasn’t the best at math but I was good enough compared to something else and math is pretty safe if you wanted to switch out of it into another job field as well.” That was what made her decide to become a math teacher. 

She likes Centreville because “given the climate of education right now, some people are not very happy with their jobs. I have a lot of teacher friends too, and they’re not super happy and I feel very fortunate that my situation is not as bad as theirs cause all my friends want to quit, but I don’t want to quit. It’s a pretty good school because I feel like the admin here are pretty supportive and the people I work with are very nice.” 

Ms. Nguyen sponsors many clubs, including the Baking club, Video Editing Club, Good Neighbors Club, and Vietnamese Support Club, and in her free time she takes care of her parents and spends time with her friends, going to concerts and eating out with them.