SANFORD, Fla. — A student’s mother nominated A+ Teacher Yolanda Williams. The mother admits she’s never met Williams but says her son attends Seminole High School in Sanford and talks about Williams nonstop because of her enthusiasm in the classroom for teaching.

Yolanda Williams says it was a teacher who inspired her early on to become an educator.

“I can still remember the perfume that my second-grade teacher wore. Her Liz Claiborne. I can still remember her earrings. I can remember when she read “Superfudge” and “Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing” to us orally and my eyes sparkled like white diamonds and crystals. I knew at that moment that I would set my endeavors on being a teacher," Williams said.

Williams really knows how to breathe life into the characters in the books her students are reading, and she goes all out to step it up when it comes to teaching her honor students by even acting out some parts of the book.

“I love bringing my creativity to the classroom. I have an absolutely outstanding student body. They go along with my shenanigans. I like to make our learning lessons metacognitive. Real-life learning lessons,” she said.

Classroom participation goes both ways and correct answers in her class are celebrated.

“I’d like for my students to take away from this class proficiency and I would like for them to know that they will always be loved, and any goal that they set their mind to, they can accomplish it,” she said.

The mother who nominated Williams wrote to Spectrum News 13, saying, “Miss Yolanda as the kids call her, is the only teacher in two years that I even know their name because she makes class so funny that my son comes home to tell me what he’s learned in that class. I think Miss Yolanda should be recognized for her enthusiasm in the classroom, especially with high school students.”