Teacher Profile Series: Lind Elementary School teacher Jody Terris

Teaching wasn't always in the cards for Lind Elementary fourth grade teacher Jody Terris. In fact, after graduating from Riverside High School north of Spokane, Terris attended Eastern Washington University to major in hotel management.

"It wasn't for me," Terris said. "I don't really know why I did that."

Terris came to the Lind-Ritzville area when her husband, Kevin, accepted the principal job at Lind-Ritzville High School. Two weeks later, she was offered a job teaching fourth grade in Lind.

Terris was in her first year majoring in hotel management when she discovered it wasn't for her. An...