To say Shelley Stone liked being a teacher for 31 years is a huge understatement—in her words, she has “absolutely loved it.”
The 2019-20 school year closed out a 31-year career as a teacher at Harvard Public School, first as a third-grade teacher for seven years, and then as the kindergarten teacher for the remaining 24 years.
Her love and want to become an educator began when she was in school, all thanks to several of her own teachers, including Barb Colvin, Marsha Sukup, and Craig Barfknecht, among others.
“They’re all excellent role models and all very respectable people,” she noted about her former teachers.
At the time, Stone was thinking about going into the cooking and nutrition side of home economics, but one area of the subject wasn’t her forte.
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