This year, marks Mr. Poppe’s 33rd year in education at The Avon School District. He's been teaching for 35 years and has taughtinAvonfor33years.When asked how he spends his summer breaks,herespondedwith,“Updating the technology at school and spending time outdoors with his wife and grandchildren.” If Poppe were to win the lottery and give up teaching he said, “He would love to travel the world with his wife.” Mr. Poppe defines a “good day” at school as, ''when all the technology and computers are working, and seeingallthekidsbeingsuccessful and accomplishing their goals, is the highlight of his teaching career” says Mr. Poppe. For him, the best thing about teaching is working and seeing the students every day, and can't say anything negative about teaching. When he wasaskedabouthowhethinkshis studentswillrememberhisclass, he responded with, '' working hard, but still having lots of fun in the classroom”. In addition to teaching, Mr. Poppe has been a well-knownandwell-lovedcoach. He has coached boy’s basketball, girl’sbasketball,volleyball,track, football, and golf. His funniest moment in teaching was a couple of years ago, when the schedule had changed, but he didn't know it,wenthomeforlunch,andforgot that he had a whole classroom full of kids with no teacher! His motto is “Enjoy every new day that you are given, because you never know what will happen”.