{"id":297,"date":"2018-09-13T17:07:30","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T22:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www5.milwaukee.k12.wi.us\/school\/townsend\/?page_id=297"},"modified":"2025-11-20T14:51:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T14:51:11","slug":"ms-west","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/townsend\/staff-roster\/ms-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Ms. West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-892 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/mpsschoolwebsi.wpenginepowered.com\/townsend\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2018\/09\/West2-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/townsend\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2018\/09\/West2-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/townsend\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2018\/09\/West2-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/townsend\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2018\/09\/West2-768x1365.jpg 768w, https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/townsend\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2018\/09\/West2.jpg 828w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><strong>Name:<\/strong>\u00a0Alantris West<\/p>\n<p><strong>Role:<\/strong> 1st grade teacher<\/p>\n<p><strong>Education:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rufus King International Baccalaureate High School<\/li>\n<li>University of Wisconsin-Whitewater (BS)<\/li>\n<li>Viterbo University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What inspires you to teach\/lead?<\/strong>\u00a0I want to have a positive, inspiring impact on children&#8217;s lives. I am eager to make difference! Students tend to remember their teachers for an entire lifetime, long after school is over! It warms my heart to see formal students of mine doing good in the world!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Did you always want to be a teacher or work with students when you grew up?<\/strong> I didn&#8217;t necessarily wanted to be\u00a0 teacher when I grew up but I knew I wanted to do some that involved helping kids in some way.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is your message to all students?<\/strong>\u00a0There\u2019s nothing you can\u2019t do if you really want to. Always remember the hardest person you\u2019ll ever face is the one staring back at you in the mirror.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Favorite Sports Teams:<\/strong> The home team! &#8211; Milwaukee Bucks! Bucks in Six!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fun Fact About Me:<\/strong>\u00a0I love to cook and workout.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Email:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:westat@milwaukee.k12.wi.us\">westat@milwaukee.k12.wi.us<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They don\u2019t care how much you know, until they know how much you care.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name:\u00a0Alantris West Role: 1st grade teacher Education: Rufus King International Baccalaureate High School University of Wisconsin-Whitewater (BS) Viterbo University What inspires you to teach\/lead?\u00a0I want to have a positive, inspiring impact on children&#8217;s lives. I am eager to make difference! Students tend to remember their teachers for an entire lifetime, long after school is over! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"parent":87,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_mc_calendar":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-297","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/townsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/townsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/townsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/townsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/townsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/townsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/297\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/townsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/townsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}