When Mariel Middlebrook was in college, she worked at Oddfiellows Playhouse in Middletown, Conn., teaching in an after-school program and running a mentoring program. It was there that she decided she wanted to be a teacher. So Middlebrook, a native of England who has family roots in Mexico and Iowa, decided to enroll in a master’s program at the University of Illinois.
She decided to make the community her long-term home. In her third year at Urbana High School, Middlebrook teaches dual-language social studies.
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