First-time teachers bring excitement for new school year throughout the building [Video]

CLEVER, Mo. (KY3) – Teachers across the Ozarks have been getting their classrooms ready for the new school year. Some of those teachers are first-timers, including one in Clever.

“There’s a lot of other outside aspects of it just in my life and relationships I was going through,” says Mackenzie Stoner, a 4th grade teacher and head volleyball coach at Clever Schools.

You never know when and how life will throw you a curve, when you think you have everything planned.

“I already know what I am doing, I am already accepted into grad school at Evangel, I had my next few years planned out,” says Stoner.

But a mock interview would eventually lead to a real one and a new path to walk.

“I got a call on a Tuesday saying like we’d love to have you interview, and the next week I was in, interviewed, got the job, …