By: Morgan Blechschmid
May 8, 2020
Mrs. Spuzzillo started teaching at Brooklyn in 1998; beforehand, she did her student-teaching with former teacher Mrs. Shymske in the fall of 1997. Mrs. Spuzzillo has co-taught every grade except for the 11th grade and has also had her own resource social studies, language arts, and science classes in middle school. She also used to have her own resource algebra 1 class at the high school a few years ago. This year, she co-taught two 8th grade social studies classes, one 9th grade world history class, and two English IV classes. Some of Mrs. Spuzzillo’s hobbies include watching her kids play softball/baseball and hockey. Her oldest daughter and her son play hockey; her son is a goalie, and her daughter plays forward. Another hobby of Mrs. Spuzzillo’s is exercising. She has recently started running and is proud to say she has run 125 miles in April! If you know Mrs. Spuzzillo well, you would know she loves her ice cream! Eating ice cream is her biggest hobby; for the past two summers, she has been going on a Summer Ice Cream Tour in which she visits a new ice cream shop every week!
I chose to recognize Mrs. Spuzzillo because she was a former 8th grade teacher of mine, and she has taught me a lot. I have always been one to struggle with math, which has always been my weakest subject and the subject I needed the most help with. I would always get so embarrassed and frustrated because I would not understand what we were learning in class. I was always too afraid to speak up to ask questions. During my 8th grade year, all of that changed. If I did not understand something that we were learning, Mrs. Spuzzillo always made it known that we were always allowed to come to her office and ask her questions. I soon became more confident in what I was doing; I learned to speak up and ask questions during class, and soon enough, I breezed through math. Having a teacher who is understanding is the best feeling; always having that reassurance that you have someone who can help you is the greatest. As a freshman, to this day, I still ask Mrs. Spuzzillo for help with math!
Thank you so much for everything you do, Mrs. Spuzzillo! You deserve so much recognition! I really appreciate all that you have done to help me and so many others throughout the years, and I know I can count on you whenever I need extra help in the future.
THE RETURN OF THE EYE 