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Dodie Boyd

Equipping for

Success

by Peyton Kirkland

met Ms. Boyd three years ago, high school, Ms. Boyd wanted to thus far because I get to pray with
when she started teaching at go back to school, planning to go kids and get to totally be me and
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I rinity Christian School. I have into accounting as some of her who I am in God, and I love it.”
had her as a teacher for Algebra family had done. As she prayed
2, College Algebra, Trigonometry, about it, she heard the Lord tell When I talked to Ms. Boyd about
and now Calculus. She has easily her that He wanted her to become her career, the passion she had
become my favorite teacher. I have a teacher, so she started on that for teaching, particularly Math,
had many conversations with Ms. path. She worked for three years was very evident. While we were
Boyd about everything from my as a secretary at Seminole Middle talking about passion, we looked
sports, fun trips, and even deeper School. While doing that during the up the definition. Passion is “an
topics. I have learned so much day, she went to school full time intense desire or enthusiasm for
from Ms. Boyd because of the way at night to finish all the basics she something.” I see this in Ms. Boyd.
she is willing to set her work aside needed. Once she had completed She has a desire to teach teens and
and help me with whatever I need, those hours, Ms. Boyd went to have a godly influence on them,
whether it is homework or advice. school full time until she finished and she uses Math as the means
her degree in Math. Then she went to do that. She said that one year,
When I asked Ms. Boyd about straight into teaching in August at the start of the school year, God
becoming successful, she said, 1997. She stayed in Seminole told her, “You need those kids, and
“Success requires dedication and teaching Math for 26 years before those kids need you.”
structure every day.” The definition retiring from public education after
of success is “the accomplishment 29 years total in Seminole. She then She told me that “there is a part of
of an aim or purpose.” Ms. Boyd moved to Lubbock and decided to them [teenagers] that meets needs
is very successful in the purpose go into Christian education. Ms. in me that nothing else does.” That
that God has given her to walk Boyd had this to say about her is when I saw the importance of her
in. She does all that she can for decision: “The experience of being following the Lord and going into
her students, so that they, too, can in a Christian education setting teaching even though that was not
be successful in whatever they is the most rewarding and best her original plan. She said, “God
choose to pursue. After graduating experience I have had in education put something inside of me to be
around this age group of people,

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