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Heroux lived on the stipend ACE teachers earn and taught
at the high school for two years. At age 22, she was only a
few years older than some of her students. In 2010, she discovered
that her alma mater had an opening for an English
teacher. She applied and was hired, beginning her education
career at John Carroll.
“It was great coming back to teach at John Carroll,” she
says. “Some things had changed in the years that I was gone,
but the community among the faculty and staff was very
much the same. That was very welcoming to me as a new
teacher at the school. It was a little strange to teach alongside
a couple of teachers who had taught me, but they have been
my biggest supporters and cheerleaders.”
While teaching English classes and some Spanish classes,
she began working on a second master’s degree in educational
leadership, hoping to move up to the administrative level.
Linda Easom, longtime assistant principal at John Carroll,
was getting ready to retire, and Heroux was hoping to move
into that spot.
“I have always loved school and loved being a student,”
she says. “When I went back to Notre Dame for my second
master’s, my dad said, ‘You’re a glutton for punishment, going
back for a third degree.’ I love learning. It sounds nerdy
and cliché, but I like being a student.”
Heroux moved to Easom’s assistant principal position in
2016, working with Principal Ben Hopper. “Ben Hopper had
been the principal for many years, and there was no idea >>
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COREY COLLINS HEROUX
Lives in: Vero Beach
Age: 32
School: John Carroll High School
Family: Husband, David Heroux;
two sons, Jack, 4, and Owen, 1
Education: Bachelor of arts dual degree
in English and Spanish, minor
in education, University of Notre
Dame; master’s in education, University of Notre Dame; master’s
in educational leadership, University of Notre Dame
Background: “I was born in Vero Beach, and from a young
age my parents instilled in me the importance of my Catholic
faith. In middle school I attended St. Helen’s School and then
moved on to John Carroll. My experience at both of these
schools during my formative teenage years had a profound
influence on who I am and how I view the world.”
How I got into teaching: “When I was a senior in high
school, my dad printed an article from Notre Dame’s website
about a teaching program through the university called
the Alliance for Catholic Education, in which recent college
graduates commit to teaching in low-income Catholic schools
across the country for two years following graduation. He
wrote on it, ‘Corey, sounds like you!’ Sure enough, four years
later I applied for the program and ended up teaching two
years in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.”
What I like best about teaching: “I love that no two days
are the same in teaching, and the same rings true in school
leadership. I tell people all the time that I love my job because
I am constantly using my brain to solve problems and help
others; I love that I get to grow along with my students.”
Something my students probably don’t know about me:
“My guilty pleasure is watching The Bachelor franchise and
reality TV shows on Bravo.”
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