Heritage hasn’t had a new yearbook teacher since the opening in 2009. This year is the exception.

Leah Waters recently joined the Coyote family. Although she’s new, her students already speak very highly of her.  

“As a teacher she’s..one of the teachers where like they can have fun, but she’s also really professional at the same time,” junior Alexis Myles said.

“She has a very good way of teaching because she teaches in different ways. She teaches for auditory people, visual people, and tactile people,” junior Kaleyah Simmons said.

Her teaching style is one thing she uses to connect to her students.

“Her personality in the classroom is… it’d be like you’re talking to one of your friends in the hallway, that’s how I would describe her personality,” Myles said.

Waters and her staffers have high hopes on what the yearbook will look like this year.

“The way she’s going to portray the yearbook, and how it’s going to look in the final touch, because I know it’s gonna be really good, because she has really good taste in almost everything,” Simmons said.

Her goal for the yearbook this year  is for every student to have a book in their hands.

“We sold almost 1,000 books last year. I wanna sell more than a 1,000. I want to make sure that the kids when they see their friends have this book and they don’t have one, I want them to flip through…and just look at the incredible photography in the stories and you know the funny captions, ” Waters said.

She hopes to have a great year with her yearbook staffers and involve everyone in this year’s edition of The Tribute.

“I want the book to be for everyone and about everyone. I want every kid in the book,” she said.