Amy Hodges

Amy Hodges is an English teacher at Hidden Valley Middle School. She has been teaching English for 13 years. She’s taught at Cave Spring High and Hidden Valley Middle. She went to many colleges because she didn’t know what she wanted to be. Her first college was Randolph Macon College near Richmond where she majored in music. Then she didn’t want to do that anymore, so her second college was James Madison University where she majored in social work. But she stopped because it was too sad, so she changed her major to English. The day she graduated she had her first daughter, Aubrey, so she missed her graduation. She has two kids, one boy and one girl.

         Ms. Hodges is very thoughtful in many ways. She said, “I like kids, there hasn’t been a kid I haven’t liked. I want them to feel important and that I want to get up every day to teach them.” No matter how hard the challenge is, she will fight the challenge and she will never give up. “I like to teach the kids who struggle because I like the challenge,” she said. Ms. Hodges had to teach with her husband in the hospital. He had a problem with his heart and he had to have a lot of checkups at UVA. She said, “You would think that it would be very difficult but you get so involved with your job that it gives you a break from your problems. It helped me out.”

         Ms. Hodges never gives up when student don’t understand. Her class is very interesting, and she makes English fun and different from all the other classes. Ms. Hodges is very caring, and becomes many students’ favorite teacher.