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Daiana Wheeler is a high school math teacher at Indiana Digital Learning School in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

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TEACHER VOICE: ‘Before teaching Algebra 2, I was an EMT, a Starbucks barista and a real estate agent. I learned to treat people with compassion’

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I realized the importance of social-emotional learning early in life, long before I became a teacher. As a child, I moved with my family from Argentina to the United States. I quickly fell in love with learning, inspired to work hard by an amazing math teacher — but, more importantly, also to be kind and […]